On Jun 22, 4:05 am, Jack Marxer <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 4:52 AM, Patrick Shanahan <[email protected]>wrote:
> > I believe that you will have better luck installing the latest version > > "made for windows" under wine (instructions are in the archives) > > A link here to the instructions might be helpful. Agreed. Patrick has a habit of recommending the use of the latest Picasa (Windows ver) and topping it off with the "go find the instructions in the archives" statement ;) I've been meaning to do a more up-to-date and formal writeup on how to do this, but what I will provide right now is a terse explanation ... be forewarned that I'm running the 11.2 64 bit version of openSUSE Linux, so YMMV ... I'm not going to discuss the use of openSUSE Repositories, so as not to make this openSUSE-specific. However, I will mention I did use the "WINE" repository, so I could [easily] install the more current WINE version than what is avail in the "openSUSE OSS" Repository. For whatever it's worth, I'm running WINE 1.2 RC4.2, which is the current "development" version of WINE. I don't recommend running the dev version for any "casual" users of Linux. a) Remove any earlier version of Picasa that is installed. I also rename any directories associated. Google-dedicated versions of Picasa create and use a directory named ~/.google, which includes a subdir named, ~/.google/picasa[/...], which I rename as ~/.google.hold b) Install a current version of WINE using your distro's package management system. c) Although not required, I recommend running "winecfg" to review the current WINE setup and to test that WINE is running properly, so jump to a command line and: m...@ren:~> wine winecfg m...@ren:~> Pay attention to the "Desktop Integration" (tab) entries - Picasa uses (if I remember correctly) the "My Documents" entry for scanning for new images in its "Tools / Folder Manager" config. "My Documents" is mapped as your home directory. d) Download the latest Windows version of Picasa: http://picasa.google.com/index.html## e) Install Picasa: m...@ren:~> wine picasa36-setup.exe The installer dialog window will pop up and ask a couple of questions (license and install location). That's it (at least for my openSUSE environment). f) The Google-dedicated Picasa available in the openSUSE "Google Linux" Repository will create a dedicated entry in the KDE Menus (and I assume it does so for the GNOME environment) under the "Application / Graphics" menu tree. I assume it does this for other Linux distributions. After installing the standard WINE package and the Windows 3.6 version of Picasa, I see that Picasa is now found in the "Applications / WINE / Programs / Picasa3" KDE4 menu tree. I assume this will be the case for GNOME users and users of other Linux distros. If you're like me, you'll most likely want to change the paths Picasa searches for image files, under "Tools / Folder Manager", because the default is to start at your home's root. I have a subdir dedicated for photos called "Pictures" - that way, Picasa doesn't go roaming around the other subdir's in the home subdirectory. "My Documents" (in winecfg) is a default entry for Picasa to scan, which means it will begin scanning at your home subdir (including all files in the home subdir) and all subdirs of the home subdir. One caveat ... once I have some time, I'm going to fix this, but for now I don't have a solution ... whenever you do an "Export", Picasa will do the export, then launch a Linux-GUI-specific file manager, showing the files that have just been exported. This is the behavior for the "Google-dedicated" version of Picasa. With the "standard WINE and Windows 3.6 Picasa" combo, that is not the behavior ... the difference is that Picasa launches the WINE-specific file manager. I much prefer how "dolphin" (KDE4 file manager) was launched, since I usually edit the photos in GIMP after export. Hope this helps someone. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google-Labs-Picasa-for-Linux" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-labs-picasa-for-linux?hl=en.
