Installing the new native app in ChromeOS

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Thanks for this guide, I’ve just tried it, and wanted to pay it forward with a small fix and enhancement of it

Get the files

  1. Downlad the Postman from https://www.postman.com/downloads/
  2. Move the downloaded zip to a location inside linux files
  3. Open up the linux terminal and navigate to where you put the zip
  4. Run tar -xvf Postman-linux-x64-7.24.0.tar.gz
  5. Run sudo apt install libnss3
  6. You can run the app already (without the icon) with ./Postman/app/Postman

Make folder

  1. create the folder .share (if you don’t already have it) `mkdir ~/.local’
  2. a folder inside of that folder mkdir ~/.local/share
  3. another folder… mkdir ~/.local/share/applications

Create the shortcut file

  1. Open Caret (you can use any other text edit application, but I like this one)

  2. add the following text
    (make sure to change the YOURUSERNAME to your actual username; you can use pwd to find out how it’s actually spelled):

     [Desktop Entry]
 Encoding=UTF-8
 Name=Postman
 Exec=/home/**YOURUSERNAME**/Postman/app/Postman %U
 Icon=/home/**YOURUSERNAME**/Postman/app/resources/app/assets/icon.png
 Terminal=false
 Type=Application
 Categories=Development;

  3. Save that file with the name Postman.desktop

  4. Move that file to the correct folder (the one you created on the 2nd part: ~/.local/share/applications

  5. if you search for Postman it should show up right away


Hat-tip to C.Coates for his answer on another forum.

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