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I downloaded postman tar from the official website and extracted the files, just like I did it the exact same way when I was using Ubuntu 16.04. Extracting is working but When I want to launch the application by double clicking the executable, it is not responding. While in 16.04 it would then launch Postman. I'm not getting any errors, just no reaction. I tried the x64 and x86 versions but that made no difference.

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    Postman-linux-x64-6.0.10.tar.gz. No guarantee that an executable can be clicked / double clicked with any OS. .... ... Please do the command ./Postman In a terminal → If any errors, they should appear as text. ( I get this : "ORM initialization successful", etc.)
    – Knud Larsen
    May 3, 2018 at 12:39
  • Launching in a terminal gave me the error in the answer that was provided. I can now launch it in terminal and by clicking.
    – SebastienPattyn
    May 3, 2018 at 13:07

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I had the same problem on a clean 18.04 install, the library libgconf2-4 could not be found.

Try sudo apt install libgconf2-4, it should solve your problem.

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  • didn't work for me, ubuntu 18.04
    – toing_toing
    May 31, 2018 at 15:46
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    Worked for me on Ubuntu 18.04
    – Md. Abu Nafee Ibna Zahid
    Jul 21, 2018 at 3:54
  • not solved with this way
    – Ninja Coding
    Dec 28, 2018 at 18:15
  • unfortunately didn't work :(
    – Kamil Naja
    Feb 11, 2020 at 19:44
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Slight change to the answer provided by @Stanko worked for me.

Try adding hypen(-) in between libgconf and 2

sudo apt install libgconf-2-4

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    Worked for me on Ubuntu 19.04. Thanks
    – j-bin
    May 22, 2019 at 22:03
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In my case previous solution wasn't enough. I had to run:

killall _Postman
killall Postman

This will terminate all lingering Postman processes

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    Thanks this worked for me! Postman client was freezing and refusing to open new collections
    – Matti
    Feb 12, 2021 at 16:45
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    if not, try killall postman
    – ackuser
    Sep 27, 2021 at 15:18
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After sudo apt install libgconf2-4 I also needed to give permissions to the /home/yourusername/.config/Postman/ folder. Then it worked like a charm.

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  • I have no Postman directory in ~/.config
    – JL_SO
    Feb 18, 2020 at 13:34

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