Thanks for that good information, Dan. For the moment, I am sticking to regular 'Picasa 3 for Linux' in my main Ubuntu partition, but I have experimented with 3.8 in my 'emergency backup Ubuntu 8.04' partition & I can happily confirm what you say about simple installation.
In 8.04 I did not have Wine installed, so I went via Synaptic & installed the latest version it offered (only 1.0...). Then I downloaded 3.8, accepting the 'Wine Windows Downloader' option & it installed just like any Windows install. For my limited purposes, 3.8 certainly has better tagging procedure (like I have in XP) but not much else that I need. I was very interested to see an option for importing pictures from a camera into folders with the date of taking (a strong requirement) but this did not work. All pictures went into a folder with the importing date & when looked at in Picasa 3.8 they all have time & date of importing, not time & date of taking. This is a big disappointment. The same pictures imported via F-Spot get put into their proper taken- date folders & show true time & date of taking. This from a Panasonic DMC TZ6 camera. Is this typical? Fixable? Thanks again! On Sep 12, 12:52 am, Dan Christensen <[email protected]> wrote: > 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.
