Installing Postman on Ubuntu/Debian

postman_installation.md

Installing Postman

Step 1

If any version of postman is installed we need to remove it

sudo rm -rf /opt/Postman

Step 2

This will install postman to /tmp directory and move it to /opt/ directory.

tar -C /tmp/ -xzf <(curl -L https://dl.pstmn.io/download/latest/linux64) && sudo mv /tmp/Postman /opt/

Step 3

Create a desktop file

sudo tee -a /usr/share/applications/postman.desktop << END
[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Name=Postman
Exec=/opt/Postman/Postman
Icon=/opt/Postman/app/resources/app/assets/icon.png
Terminal=false
Type=Application
Categories=Development;
END

Thanks for teaching me how to create a desktop file! Worked on Fedora workstation 40 as well, if anyone's wondering.

how to uninstall it?

Thanks, i was about to give up.

Thanks it worked on Debian 18.

Thanks, it worked on fedora 40, Gnome46

worked on nobara 40 (gnome), thank you

Works, thanks a lot man (Fedora 40) 👍

Thank you it works!

Great

Thanks you <3 , you are amazing :D again

Thanks! It's easy than say tru la la =)

Flawless....
Ubuntu 25.04

Wonderful, works on debian

In ChromeOS, I had to install this package to make the requests work as well: sudo apt install libsecret-1-dev

I was looking for this solution because I was having trouble with KIO worker during sign in, and this solution worked great! Thank you!
KDE Neon

Works perfectly! Thanks mate!

Works well on OpenSUSE 16 Leap RC, but requires running kbuildsycoca5 --noincremental to rebuild the KIO cache after creating desktop files.

Thanks! Works well on Debian 13

Thank you!

thanks, man!

It works! Fedora 43.

Gnome 46 can be a bit picky with desktop entries. Running update-desktop-database and reloading the shell usually fixes icon issues. For what it’s worth, some people avoid these setup steps entirely by using tools like Apidog that work out of the box on Linux.

Thank you!