Installing Postman from tarball on Ubuntu 19.04

Step by step guide to install the latest version of Postman on Ubuntu 19.04

But Why?

The Postman from snap store is pretty outdated. I wanted the latest version on my system.

First step is to get Postman

Head to https://www.getpostman.com/downloads/ and get the tarball. In my case the file was named Postman-linux-x64–7.6.0.tar.gz

Then install it

Open up a terminal and type in the following

sudo tar -xzf Postman-linux-x64–7.6.0.tar.gz -C /opt
sudo ln -s /opt/Postman/Postman /usr/bin/postman

Create desktop entry

Now we need to create a desktop entry for the installation so that it is available in the Applications menu.

Type in the following in the terminal

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

Now you can access postman from Applications menu

Reference

https://www.bluematador.com/blog/postman-how-to-install-on-ubuntu-1604