2CV67 <[email protected]> writes: > Dan Christensen wrote: > >> And you don't need to mess with the command line to use 3.8; just >> download it and double-click on it, and it should work. > > Why all this then? > "Taka a look at this ling it show you how to do it. > http://www.webupd8.org/2010/04/how-to-install-picasa-36-in-ubuntu.html > "
The first couple of steps install wine, and it's true that you need to do this if you don't have a system-wide wine already installed. But I expect that most users do have wine installed. And if you are running karmic (or newer), you don't need to get a special version, so you can just use the standard ubuntu GUI to install wine. The rest of the steps at that URL are to try to use google's custom wine, but in my experience there's no need to do that. So my instructions are: 1) Use your standard GUI to make sure you have wine installed, at version 1.2 or greater. 2) Download picasa 3.8 for Windows and double-click on it. (Now if you want to preserve your database from a 3.0-or-3.1-for-linux installation, then you need to manually copy the appropriate files over. If you just want to preserve albums, picasa's backup procedure will handle that. But you wanted to start from scratch, and the above should work.) Dan -- 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.
