* The Real Bev <[email protected]> [01-03-11 15:56]:
> On 01/03/11 10:43, Stephen wrote:
>
> >Well if using Slack then you shouldn't have too much trouble altering
> >the Step x Step for tarballs. Everything else should be very similar
> >other than using a package manager. ;)
>
> If that was snide, it fell a bit short.
>
> I was unable to locate a tarball at the website. Does such exist?
>
> I USE linux, I'm not an expert. My live-in consultant, the long-time
> (1965) systems programmer, doesn't deal with X or windows or even
> C++. It's a moral thing :-) Accordingly, my comment: "I have always
> depended upon the kindness of strangers."
>
> Converting rpms to tgzs is iffy. Attempting to do a normal rpm -i
> install invariably results in the inability to find libraries
> actually included in the library paths. Installing rpms --nodeps is
> iffy. I've never used any variety of debian, but deb2tgz likewise
> doesn't work.
>
> I actually used the copy of wine that came with picasa 3 to run
> 'notepad' -- a pretty simple thing. That's the only wine success
> I've had.
>
> What I really don't want to have to do is re-do all my picasa
> 'albums' -- containing thousands of edited photos. Yes, I have
> backups. No, I don't want to lose what I have even if I DO have
> backups.
>
> I most especially do not want to go through my entire system to
> select which subdirectories picasa notices/follows/ignores.
>
> If you weren't being snide, I apologize. Never mind.
>
>
> Cheers, Bev
> ===============================================================
> Never try to extort more than it would cost to have you killed.
>
>
>
>
> >On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 1:15 PM, The Real Bev <[email protected]
> ><mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> >
> > On 01/03/11 09:09, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
> >
> > * Stephen<[email protected]
> > <mailto:[email protected]>> [01-03-11 10:43]:
> >
> > OK Folks here is the URI; http://goo.gl/4BTbL Please
> > review and correct or
> > suggest corrections/additons on the KNOL itself. Thank-you.
> >
> >
> > jfyi, I am on opensuse 11.2 and I installed w/o the 3.0 version.
> > I have
> > no problem with crashing when initiating "Places" or any other
> > object
> > that I have tried. My install was:
> > wine ./picasa38-setup.exe
> >
> >
> > Let me get this straight...
> >
> > I installed the newest version of wine (unused for anything as
> > yet)(wow, that took a long time!) and have downloaded
> > picasa38-setup.exe. I'm using slackware 12.1 instead of one of the
> > more popular distributions. I am increasingly gun-shy about
> > installing updates to programs NOT contained in tarballs or
> > slackware packages.
> >
> > I'm looking for reassurance. Can you give me any?
you already have wine installed. You have no need for a tar-ball.
Install picasa 3.8:
wine ./picasa38-setup.exe
It will work!
I do not know why one would want to go thru the extra steps or *what*
that would enable/enhance.
for a screen-shot of a running picasa 3.8 installed as I noted above:
http://wahoo.no-ip.org/~pat/picasa38.jpg
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