How to Install Postman on Ubuntu
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Postman is a most widely used API development environment that helps you to manage your APIs in every place of development from testing and debugging your APIs.
Makes API development easier,faster and better. Postman started as a Chrome Extension and quickly become one of the most used and popular API development tools by developers all over the world.
The Postman is available as a native app for macOS, Linux, and Windows. Although it is possible to install and use Postman as a Chrome app, You may have seen the yellow warning on the Postman Chrome app indicating that Google is deprecated Chrome apps.
Simple three steps to install Postman on Ubuntu 16.04 and Ubuntu 18.04 using the Snap package.
Install Postman on Ubuntu
Open terminal by using “Ctrl+Alt+T” and run below command to install the Postman snap package
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Authenticate with your password. The installation may take some time, depending on the speed of your internet connection.
NOTE: for Ubuntu 16.04 users first time installing a snap package, first make sure the snap is installed using below command.
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Starting Postman
Once the Postman is installed on your Ubuntu system. Launch the Postman app from software launcher and enjoy!
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Update Postman to Latest Version
If you install postman via snap, it will install postman version 6.7.1 but at the present stable version of the postman is 7.8.0. postman version 6.7.1 won’t sync data with other devices.
Lets, Update Postman to Latest Version. The below command will bring out the latest version.
Conclusion
You have successfully installed Postman on your Ubuntu. You can now use your new API tool and start working on your projects.
Hope it helped you in an easy way to install postman on Ubuntu. Please let us know in the comment section if you have any concern.
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