Postman Source Installation on Ubuntu 18.04

Postman is the only complete API development environment, for API developers. Postman is available as a native app for mac OS, Windows, and Linux operating systems. In this article, you will be briefed about the method Postman Source Installation on Ubuntu 18.04.

Installation

Download the postman package by using wget command.

root@linuxhelp1:~# wget https://dl.pstmn.io/download/latest/linux64 -O postman.tar.gz
--2019-03-11 05:09:35--  https://dl.pstmn.io/download/latest/linux64
Resolving dl.pstmn.io (dl.pstmn.io)... 54.192.216.215, 54.192.216.246, 54.192.216.84, ...
Connecting to dl.pstmn.io (dl.pstmn.io)|54.192.216.215|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 71372679 (68M) [application/gzip]
Saving to: ‘postman.tar.gz’

postman.tar.gz                   100%[=========================================================>]  68.07M  1.12MB/s    in 2m 2s   

2019-03-11 05:11:39 (570 KB/s) - ‘postman.tar.gz’ saved [71372679/71372679]

Extract the download file following location by using tar command.

root@linuxhelp1:~# tar -zxvf postman.tar.gz -C /opt/
Postman/
Postman/Postman
Postman/app/
Postman/app/LICENSES.chromium.html
Postman/app/icudtl.dat
Postman/app/libnode.so
Postman/app/LICENSE
Postman/app/snapshot_blob.bin
Postman/app/version
Postman/app/libffmpeg.so
Postman/app/natives_blob.bin
Postman/app/locales/
Postman/app/locales/da.pak.
.
.
.
Postman/app/resources/app/services/loginUtils.js
Postman/app/resources/app/services/AuthHandler.js
Postman/app/resources/app/services/OAuth2WindowManager.js
Postman/app/resources/app/services/OAuth2TokenRequester.js
Postman/app/resources/app/services/AutoUpdaterService.js
Postman/app/resources/app/plugins/
Postman/app/resources/app/plugins/prepackedPlugins.json
Postman/app/resources/app/plugins/postman.openApi.zip

Create a soft link for command alias.

root@linuxhelp1:~# ln -s /opt/Postman/Postman /usr/bin/postman

Just type postman from terminal.

root@linuxhelp1:~# postman 
Gtk-Message: 05:13:19.954: Failed to load module "canberra-gtk-module"
1552261406582 main info ["Booting Postman 6.7.4, linux-4.15.0-13-generic on x64"]
1552261406584 main info ["EventBus\\x7einitialize - Success"]
1552261406813 main info ["UpdateHandler\\x7einit - Success"]
1552261406815 main info ["RuntimeExecutionService\\x7einitialized

Now Postman application getting from desktop now you can able to use the application. With this, the method To perform Postman Source Installation on Ubuntu 18.04 comes to an end