Postman desktop app ubuntu 24.04 quick install

by Andrew Stilliard

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.