Version 6.4.4 don't launch on ubuntu 17.10

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A JavaScript error occurred in the main process
Uncaught Exception:
Error: Cannot find module ‘circular-json’
at Module._resolveFilename (module.js:485:15)
at Function.Module._resolveFilename (/home/gabriel/Postman/app/resources/electron.asar/common/reset-search-paths.js:35:12)
at Function.Module._load (module.js:437:25)
at Module.require (module.js:513:17)
at require (internal/module.js:11:18)
at Object. (/home/gabriel/Postman/app/resources/app/main.js:7:20)
at Object. (/home/gabriel/Postman/app/resources/app/main.js:549:3)
at Module._compile (module.js:569:30)
at Object.Module._extensions…js (module.js:580:10)
at Module.load (module.js:503:32)

version 6.4.2 works fine

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Hi Gabriel,

We have seen people having issues when they update the app themselves using some script. This happens because the script generally unzips the newly downloaded app to the target location merging the contents of both old and new app.
To fix this, please delete the target location (is it /opt/Postman?) and then unzip the latest app there.

We would strongly recommend using the auto-update feature in which you don’t have to deal with this complexity.

If you are having some issues with the auto-update, please let us know. Generally, there are permission related issues since the user does not have the write permission on the target location. We would recommend using a location where you do have write permissions, something like the home directory.

Let me know if that solves the issue.

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I didin’t place postman in opt , it was on my home - I just downloaded again the last version , and now it works just fine , something hasve changed- In the console i have a missing module now, but it works so far. I chmod the app folder to 777 to be sure there is no permission problems , but no change , the module is still missing. I paste you here the console log:

Gtk-Message: Failed to load module “canberra-gtk-module”
1540216591187 main info [“Booting Postman 6.4.4, linux-4.13.0-46-generic on x64”]
1540216591188 main info [“EventBus~initialize - Success”]
1540216591191 main info [“UpdateHandler~init - Success”]
1540216591192 main info [“RuntimeExecutionService~initialized: Success”]
1540216591201 main info [“ProtocolHandler~init - Success with status: false]”]
1540216591454 main info [“Bootstrap-models~bootstrap - Success”]
1540216592882 main info [“Main~AppEvents - Received booted event for process shared”]
1540216594484 main info [“UpdateHandler~app-update-events - Received event”,{“name”:“checkForElectronVersionUpdated”,“namespace”:“appUpdate”}]
1540216594490 main info [“Main~AppEvents - Received booted event for process requester”]

Thanks!