Well, these are my steps which I found as I wrote in about 30 mins. It
describes how to install picasa just for the one currently logged
user. I'm sure it is not the optimal solution and you could probably
do it much clearer way. For instance it could be improved to install
picasa3.1 for all the users.
I believe it is just 1 hour work for google guys to prepare new
package. Don't blame that you are buzzy with chrome.
On Ubuntu 9.04 follow those steps:
0. install standard picasa-3.0.deb package and run picasa once just
to create ~/.google
1. apt-get install wine - picasa does not work with standard Ubuntu
wine (why?) but you need it to extract installation picasa-setup.exe
file
2. download picasa 3.1 for Windows
3. wine picasa-setup.exe ... and install
4. cp -rf ~/.google/picasa/3.0 ~/.google/picasa/3.1
5. replace ~/.google/picasa/3.1/drive_c/Program\ Files/Google/Picasa3
by the Picasa3 directory which was created by the previous ubuntu's
wine installation. It should be somewhere in .wine/drive_c/Program\
Files/Google/Picasa3/
6. cd /opt/google/picasa; ln -s 3.0 3.1
7. cd /usr/bin; cp picasa picasa31
8. edit picasa31
replace content of locate_pic_root() by:
locate_pic_root()
{
PIC_ROOT='/opt/google/picasa/3.1/bin/'
PIC_BINDIR='/opt/google/picasa/3.1/bin'
export PIC_ROOT
export PIC_BINDIR
return 0
}
and:
< WINEPREFIX="$HOME/.google/picasa/3.0"
> WINEPREFIX="$HOME/.google/picasa/3.1"
< exec "$PIC_BINDIR"/wrapper license.exe.so /gate "c:\Program Files
\Google\Picasa3\Picasa3.exe" "$@"
> exec "$PIC_BINDIR"/wrapper license.exe.so /gate "c:\Program
> Files\Google2\Picasa3\Picasa3.exe" "$@"
On Aug 25, 6:00 pm, Raphael Clifford <[email protected]> wrote:
> Would you be able to post in detail the steps required?
>
> Raphael
>
> 2009/8/25 smrt <[email protected]>:
>
>
>
>
>
> > Hi,
>
> > I'm just wonder why the 3.1 picasa is not yet released for linux.
> > Where is the problem? I was able to "upgrade" picasa on my Ubuntu 9.04
> > in about 30 minutes. I just copied files from windows version and
> > modified /usr/bin/picasa script slightly. I've started using this new
> > version yesterday with absolutely no problems.
>
> > Google, Is it a big problem for you to release new linux picasa
> > packages in parallel with windows picasa?
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