thankz 4 the howto! it looks quite simple to "upgrade" to 3.1 version ... i'll try it soon! ... even if, me too i'm wondering why google devel don't prepare a pkg ... and, chromeOS won't have picasa installed on it??? maybe not ...
On Aug 25, 9:29 pm, smrt <[email protected]> wrote: > 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? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
