How to install/start Postman native v4.10.3 on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 64-bit?

Question

I downloaded Postman for Linux (from https://www.getpostman.com/apps), unpacked .tar.gz file into ~/bin/postman and then tried to execute ~/bin/postman/Postma

Answer 1

This is works for me on Ubuntu 18.04 with Postman v7.1.1 which is released on 20 May, 2019.

Download the latest version of Postman.

• For Linux 32-bit
• For Linux 64-bit

Most probably your downloaded file should be in Downloads folder.

# Postman-linux-x64-7.1.1.tar.gz is my downloaded file

cd /home/YOUR_USERNAME/Downloads/
tar -xzf Postman-linux-x64-7.1.1.tar.gz Postman/
sudo mv Postman /usr/share/postman
sudo ln -s /usr/share/postman/Postman /usr/bin/postman

If you get an error like this,

/usr/share/postman/Postman: error while loading shared libraries: libgconf-2.so.4: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

please install libgconf-2-4.

sudo apt install libgconf-2-4

Just type postman in your terminal and hit enter to run latest version of Postman. Now we have to create an Unity desktop file for your launcher. For create postman.desktop file run the below command.

sudo nano ~/.local/share/applications/postman.desktop

Then paste below lines into the postman.desktop file.

[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Name=Postman
Exec=postman
Icon=/usr/share/postman/app/resources/app/assets/icon.png
Terminal=false
Type=Application
Categories=Development;

Now you can see the "Postman" icon in your Unity launcher. If you miss any point please go through this video or comment below.