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Kaigo
Asked: 2019-12-19 09:18:53 +0800 CST

Postman not opening on 18.04

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Installed postman from the ubuntu software centre under a fresh install and the app will not open.

This is the information from snap list

postman 7.13.0 97 stable postman-inc✓ -

I've tried the fix suggest here, however that didn't work.

Madness, that this app has been chosen as the banner for software centre and doesn't work out-the-box on LTS version!

software_center

18.04

1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    This guide will install non-snap version

    1. Remove snap version
    sudo snap remove postman
    1. Download and install apt version
    wget https://dl.pstmn.io/download/latest/linux64 -O postman.tar.gz

sudo tar -xzf postman.tar.gz -C /opt

rm postman.tar.gz

sudo ln -s /opt/Postman/Postman /usr/bin/postman
    1. Make a app launcher shortcut (Paste this whole block below into 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

    Then postman should be available in app menu.

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

    NOTE: this has been fixed with ubuntu 20.04 lts and postman works out-the-box

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