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 sharing this.One downside of this setup is that updates and team syncing still rely heavily on Postman’s cloud. That’s fine for solo use, but can get annoying on Linux.Some teams on Debian/Ubuntu moved to Apidog, which provides a native Linux client and bundles API docs + testing + mocking without extra install steps.