Howto Install Picasa 3.5 in ubuntu
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Picasa is a software application for organizing and editing digital photos, originally created by Idealab and owned by Google since 2004."Picasa" is a blend of the name of Spanish painter Pablo Picasso, the phrase mi casa for "my house" and "pic" for pictures (personalized art).
Picasa 3.5 Features
* Facial recognition
* Geo-tagging
* Better text tool
* Awesome Tagging tools
* Photo importing improvements
Install Picasa 3.5 in ubuntu
First you need to make sure You have Picasa 3.0 already installed, as well as WINE.
You can either grab a .deb of 3.0 from here
Install .deb package using the following command
sudo dpkg -i picasa_3.0-current_i386.deb
or add the Google testing repository to /etc/apt/sources.list file
sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list
Add the following line
deb http://dl.google.com/linux/deb/ testing non-free
Save and exit
Update the source list using the following command
sudo apt-get update
Install picasa using the following command
sudo apt-get install picasa
First you need to install wine using the following command
sudo apt-get install wine
Now you need to download picasa 3.5 from windows from here
Once downloaded .exe file install this by double clicking on this.
Now you need to copy installed picasa 3.5 from
/home/YOUR_USER_NAME/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/Google/Picasa3
to
/opt/google/picasa/3.0/wine/drive_c/Program Files/Google/Picasa3
Use the following command to copy or use nautilus
su cp -r /home/YOUR_USER_NAME/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/Google/Picasa3
/opt/google/picasa/3.0/wine/drive_c/Program Files/Google/Picasa3
Once done, You can open Picasa 3.5 from your Applications > Graphics > Picasa
Source from here
http://www.ubuntugeek.com/howto-install-picasa-3-5-in-ubuntu.html
