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

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!