How to Install Postman on ubuntu 18.04/16.04
This post will guide you how to install Postman tool on your Ubuntu Linux 18.04 or 16.04. How do I install Postman with snap tool on your Ubuntu Linux system. How do I use the defautl Ubuntu software center to install Postman throught Ubuntu GUI.
- What is Postman？
- Installing Postman with Snap Tool
- Installing Postman with default Software Center
- Starting Postman
What is Postman？
Postman is the only complete API development environment used by more than 6 million developer and 200,000 companies worldwide. You can use Postman tool to manage your APIs in your developement of your project. And this tool started as a Chrome browser extension before, and now it become one of the most popular API tools by developer in the all of the world.
Postman is available for Mac OS X, Windows, Linux Users. and it can make working with APIs more faster and easier by supporting developers at every stage of their workfolow.
Postman is available for Mac OS X, Windows, Linux Users. and it can make working with APIs more faster and easier by supporting developers at every stage of their workfolow.
Installing Postman with Snap Tool
If you want to install Post man on Ubuntu 18.04 or 16.04 or other Ubuntu or debian Linux, you can use the snap tool to install it, just using the following commad:
$ sudo snap install postman
Outputs:
devops@devops-VirtualBox:~$ sudo snap install postman postman 6.7.1 from Postman, Inc. (postman-inc✓) installed
Note: before running the first command to install postman, you need to make sure snapd is installed on your Ubuntu Linux, if not, just issue the following apt install command to install it：
$ sudo apt install snapd snapd-xdg-open
Outputs:
devops@devops-VirtualBox:~$ sudo apt install snapd snapd-xdg-open [sudo] password for devops: Sorry, try again. [sudo] password for devops: Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following NEW packages will be installed: snapd-xdg-open The following packages will be upgraded: snapd 1 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 327 not upgraded. Need to get 13.4 MB of archives. After this operation, 1,897 kB disk space will be freed. Get:1 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-updates/main amd64 snapd amd64 2.38+18.04 [13.4 MB] Get:2 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-updates/universe amd64 snapd-xdg-open amd64 2.38+18.04 [1,632 B] Fetched 13.4 MB in 7s (1,814 kB/s) (Reading database ... 129514 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to unpack .../snapd_2.38+18.04_amd64.deb ... Unpacking snapd (2.38+18.04) over (2.37.1.1+18.04) ... Selecting previously unselected package snapd-xdg-open. Preparing to unpack .../snapd-xdg-open_2.38+18.04_amd64.deb ... Unpacking snapd-xdg-open (2.38+18.04) ... Processing triggers for mime-support (3.60ubuntu1) ... Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils (0.23-1ubuntu3.18.04.2) ... Setting up snapd (2.38+18.04) ... Installing new version of config file /etc/apparmor.d/usr.lib.snapd.snap-confine.real ... md5sum: /etc/apparmor.d/usr.lib.snapd.snap-confine: No such file or directory snapd.failure.service is a disabled or a static unit, not starting it. snapd.snap-repair.service is a disabled or a static unit, not starting it.
Installing Postman with default Software Center
You can also install postman via the default Software Center in your Ubuntu system, just open your Ubuntu Software Center, and type the psotman keyword in the searching box, then click to install Postman in Ubuntu Software.
Starting Postman
So far, you should install Postman tool on your Ubuntu system using one of the above methods. And then you can try to start it by issue the following command in your Ubuntu terminal:
$ postman
when you start Postman in the first time, and a first postman page will ask you to login or create a new account to use postman.
Or you can also click Postman icon under Activites window.
Conclusion
You should know that how to install Postman tool on your Ubuntu or Debian Linux. If you want to see more detailed information about postman, you can directly go to its official web site.
