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3 Easy Commands to Install Postman in Kali Linux

Introduction

For an effective development environment especially back-end, you will require postman to test your endpoints. It has been constantly said that Debian environments are ideal for Software development/engineering processes. Having said this, I will take 3 simple steps to install Postman in Kali Linux.

Requirements

  • Internet
  • Proficiency with Command utility
  • x64 Linux architecture

Download Postman

1.Extract the folder using the following command and a Postman folder will be created:

sudo tar -xvz -f postman-linux-x64.tar.gz
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2.Move the folder to the root opt folder

sudo mv Postman /opt/
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3.Navigate to this folder /usr/share/applications/ and create a file Postman.desktop and open the nano editor

touch Postman.desktop && nano Postman.desktop
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write the following content

[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;
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You have successfully installed Postman!

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Jay Kodoth

This steps do not seems to be working for me.
I am using VERSION_ID="2023.3" in VMware Fusion, host MacOS Ventura

I see postman available in the apps - however it is not opening.

Can someone please guide me ?

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