The Postman Learning Center should be a good starting point for learning how to create Postman workspaces, collections, environments and more. On success, the response will return a JSON object containing an array of users. On the “Untitled Request tab” enter, leave the request type as GET and click on the SEND button. To illustrate how Postman works, we will send a simple Get request to a hosted REST API and receive a JSON response containing users list.

If you don’t want to log in simply click on “Skip signing in and take me straight to the app”. If you create an account, you will be able to organize your work in Workspaces, create backups, and sync your data across multiple devices. When you start Postman for the first time, a window like the following will appear asking you to login or create a new account: Now that Postman is installed on your Ubuntu system you can start it by clicking on the Postman icon ( Activities -> Postman): Simply search for Postman and click install: Starting Postman Once installed, the following output will be displayed: postman 6.7.1 from 'postman-inc' installedĪlternatively, you can install Postman using the Ubuntu Software Center. The download may take some time depending on the speed of your connection. Open your terminal by pressing Ctrl+Alt+T and install the Postman snap package, by typing: sudo snap install postman The easiest way is to install Postman on Ubuntu 18.04 is by using the snappypackaging system. Prerequisitesīefore continuing with this tutorial, make sure you are logged in as a user with sudo privileges. The same instructions apply for Ubuntu 16.04 and any Ubuntu-based distribution, including Linux Mint, Kubuntu, and Lubuntu.

This tutorial explains how to install Postman on Ubuntu 18.04. Although it is possible to install and use Postman as a Chrome app, support for the Postman Chrome app is being deprecated. Postman is available as a native app (built on Electron) for all major operating systems including macOS, Linux, and Windows. Postman started as a Chrome browser extension and quickly become one of the most used API tools by developers all over the world. Postman is a complete API development environment that helps you manage your APIs in every stage of development from designing and testing, to publishing API documentation and monitoring.

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