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/Postman/Postman. Unfortunately it resulted with following error:

A JavaScript error occurred in the main process Uncaught Exception: Error: Cannot find module 'glob'     at Module._resolveFilename (module.js:455:15)     at Function.Module._resolveFilename (/home/imilosavljevic/bin/postman/Postman/resources/electron.asar/common/reset-search-paths.js:35:12)     at Function.Module._load (module.js:403:25)     at Module.require (module.js:483:17)     at require (internal/module.js:20:19)     at Object.<anonymous> (/home/imilosavljevic/bin/postman/Postman/resources/app/node_modules/electron-json-storage/node_modules/rimraf/rimraf.js:7:12)     at Module._compile (module.js:556:32)     at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:565:10)     at Module.load (module.js:473:32)     at tryModuleLoad (module.js:432:12) 

Is there any other way of installing/starting Postman on Ubuntu?

Answer 1

Yes, you can install Postman using these commands:

wget https://dl.pstmn.io/download/latest/linux64 -O postman.tar.gz sudo tar -xzf postman.tar.gz -C /opt rm postman.tar.gz sudo ln -s /opt/Postman/Postman /usr/bin/postman 

You can also get Postman to show up in the Unity Launcher:

cat > ~/.local/share/applications/postman.desktop <<EOL [Desktop Entry] Encoding=UTF-8 Name=Postman Exec=postman Icon=/opt/Postman/app/resources/app/assets/icon.png Terminal=false Type=Application Categories=Development; EOL 

You don't need node.js or any other dependencies with a standard Ubuntu dev install.

See more at our blog post at https://blog.bluematador.com/posts/postman-how-to-install-on-ubuntu-1604/.

EDIT: Changed icon.png location. Latest versions of Postman changed their directory structure slightly.

Answer 2

Edit:

If you have snap or want to install it, just do:

$ sudo snap install postman 

if you don't have it, install it as:

$ sudo apt update $ sudo apt install snapd 

Another way is create an script:

First create this script:

create a file install-postman.sh, inside of it add:

#!/bin/bash cd /tmp || exit echo "Downloading Postman ..." wget -q https://dl.pstmn.io/download/latest/linux?arch=64 -O postman.tar.gz tar -xzf postman.tar.gz rm postman.tar.gz  echo "Installing to opt..." if [ -d "/opt/Postman" ];then     sudo rm -rf /opt/Postman fi sudo mv Postman /opt/Postman  echo "Creating symbolic link..." if [ -L "/usr/bin/postman" ];then     sudo rm -f /usr/bin/postman fi sudo ln -s /opt/Postman/Postman /usr/bin/postman  echo "Installation completed successfully." echo "You can use Postman!" 

run it in terminal with:

$ sh install-postman.sh 

Then create the desktop launcher:

Postman.desktop

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

Put this file in your desktop if you want (don't forget give to it execution permissions). Double click, and that's it!

Forever thanks to Aviskase (github acount name).

source -> https://gist.github.com/aviskase/e642248c35e400b56e2489430952369f#file-postman-desktop