Unable to install interceptor bridge from app - Missing NativeMessagingHosts

Hi all,

This is just a note that I was unable to install the interceptor bridge directly from the Postman Desktop App “Capture Cookies and Requests” Dropdown.

I’m on MacOS and got the following errors: “Postman doesn’t have the required permissions to install Node.js and other dependencies.” and ERROR CODE: CHROME_NOT_INSTALLED

I checked the documentation and went through all of the troubleshooting steps in the Interceptor Docs. Everything checked out except that I realized I didn’t have a NativeMessagingHosts file. Manually adding one and restarting the Chrome and Postman apps didn’t help.

I found these outdated Readme steps in the history of this repo, which ended up working.

I’m unblocked, but someone else might run into this (found one similar post on Stack Overflow that was deleted 2 days ago).

[rufreakde]

I had the same issue using MacOS.

CHROME_NOT_INSTALLED: Check whether Chrome is installed and a NativeMessagingHosts folder exists at the following location:

MacOS: ~/Library/Application Support/Google/Chrome/NativeMessagingHosts

I created the folder and assigned rights:

mkdir NativeMessagingHosts
chmod +wx NativeMessagingHosts

Afterwords the installation via the app worked.

[FiveBoroughs]

On most Linux distributions Chromium is the default and not Chrome, quick fix :

ln -s ~/.config/chromium ~/.config/google-chrome