Postman Linux app installation error on Ubuntu 18 ( missing libgconf-2-4 package)

[brunodles]

App Details:

Postman for Linux
Version 6.0.10
Ubuntu 17.10 / x64

uname -a

Linux inspiron 4.13.0-38-generic #43-Ubuntu SMP Wed Mar 14 15:20:44 UTC 2018 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Issue Report:

1. Did you encounter this recently, or has this bug always been there:
   I'm migrating to native app
2. Expected behaviour:
   Simply open the Postman
3. Console logs (http://blog.getpostman.com/2014/01/27/enabling-chrome-developer-tools-inside-postman/ for the Chrome App, View->Toggle Dev Tools for the Mac app):

./Postman error while loading shared libraries: libgconf-2.so.4: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

4. Screenshots (if applicable)
   Not applicable.

How to reproduce the problem

1. Download tar
2. Extract it
3. Move to postman folder
4. Run ./Postman

Extra

When I try to run the postman I get this error

./Postman error while loading shared libraries: libgconf-2.so.4: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Any of these pages contains the list of dependencies to run it.

• https://www.getpostman.com/docs/v6/postman/launching_postman/installation_and_updates
• https://blog.bluematador.com/posts/postman-how-to-install-on-ubuntu-1604/
• https://www.getpostman.com/apps

How to solve

Just need to install libgconf-2-4

sudo apt-get install libgconf-2-4

Sources

electron/electron#1518

Thanks

This is just a small report, thanks for the app.
You're great!

[dhineshwiz]

Hey thanks for reporting and workarounds, We will look into it

[barotashish]

Yesterday I do installation of Postman on my Ubuntu Linux 17.10

--
DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=17.10
DISTRIB_CODENAME=artful
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 17.10"
NAME="Ubuntu"
VERSION="17.10 (Artful Aardvark)"

-- uname -a
Linux ashish-barot 4.13.0-39-generic #44-Ubuntu SMP Thu Apr 5 14:25:01 UTC 2018 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

-- Postman Version
v1.6.16

[seantcanavan]

This is also an issue on Ubuntu 18.04. Just did a fresh install of 18.04 and was installing Postman.

sudo apt-get install libgconf-2-4 fixed the issue.

[SamvelRaja]

@brunodles @barotashish Recommending you guys to install libgconf-2-4 as @seantcanavan suggested.

[SamvelRaja]

Related to electron/electron#1518

[SamvelRaja]

Closing this in ref to electron/electron#1518 (comment)

[joaoe]

The documentation is incorrect

https://www.getpostman.com/docs/v6/postman/launching_postman/installation_and_updates

It says libconfig-2-4. There is no such thing.

[BeatriceThalo]

installing from the software center instead of the tar works on ubuntu 18

[dwiyatci]

In my case (Ubuntu 18.10), in addition to sudo apt install libgconf-2-4, I need to do:

sudo apt install libgtk2.0-0

in order to fix "error while loading shared libraries: libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory" error. 🙃

[Justin-Maxwell]

Just for search indexing:

Chromebook / Chrome-OS (v73) Crostini Linux
sudo apt install libgconf-2-4 fixes.

[saeidamini]

Arch base Linux installs gconf package solved the problem.
sudo pacman -S gconf

[ehtishamqureshi2013]

└─# sudo apt install libgconf-2-4
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package libgconf-2-4