Postman desktop app ubuntu 24.04 quick install

Download from https://www.postman.com/downloads/ for linux x64.

Extract in your downloads folder and open up the terminal and cd over to the newly extracted folder.

cd ~/Downloads/postman-linux-x64  

Move it to be available system-wide:

sudo mv Postman /opt/postman  

Make the postman command available:

sudo ln -s /opt/postman/Postman /usr/bin/postman  

Add to applications menu:

sudo vim /usr/share/applications/postman.desktop  

Add the following:

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

Test & you're done.

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