Installing Postman

Postman Installation

Postman is fairly straight-forward to install. You can either download the tarball from the website, or from command line.

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

So what we are doing is downloading the file with wget and extracting the file to the /opt folder.

• x –extract the command to extract the files
• z –gzip means the the file is infact a gz file
• f –file the file being used

Remove the download and create a symlink to the usr/bin directory. Setting up symlinks is fairly straight forward and follows this syntax

ln -s OriginalFile NewLink

Updating Postman

Postman is regularly updated. To update postman, following these amended steps from the first section.

wget https://dl.pstmn.io/download/latest/linux64 -O postman.tar.gz
sudo tar -xzf postman.tar.gz -C /opt
rm postman.tar.gz

That’s it.