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March 10, 2019 14:33
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Tired of a installing Postman the manual way, made this humble script to install in on Ubuntu
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#!/bin/sh | |
# make sure and old installation file is not present | |
rm linux64 | |
# download the latest version for a 64bit system | |
wget https://dl.pstmn.io/download/latest/linux64 | |
# extract the downloaded file | |
tar -xzf linux64 | |
# make sure and old installation is not present | |
sudo rm -rf /opt/Postman | |
# move the Postman app to the /opt directory | |
sudo mv Postman/ /opt/ | |
# delete the downloaded installation file | |
rm linux64 | |
# create a 'Desktop' file, this will help Ubuntu pick it up in the launcher | |
echo "[Desktop Entry] | |
Encoding=UTF-8 | |
Name=Postman | |
Exec=/opt/Postman/app/Postman %U | |
Icon=/opt/Postman/app/resources/app/assets/icon.png | |
Terminal=false | |
Type=Application | |
Categories=Development;" > ~/.local/share/applications/Postman.desktop | |
# create a desktop shortcut | |
ln -s /opt/Postman/app/Postman ~/Desktop/Postman | |
# print a success message | |
echo "Postman installed to [/opt/Postman] and a launcher link added to the Desktop." |
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