FYI:
- When you install the Linux version of picasa, the installs a private
deployment of wine for use by picasa. It also installs a GUI menu item.
- The GUI menu item executes /usr/bin/picasa , which is an executable
shell script.
- The /usr/bin/picasa script sets up the environment so that Picassa will
work properly under wine.
- The execution home directory is "$HOME/.google/picasa/3.0"
- When picasa is executed, it is with this script line:
- exec "/opt/google/picasa/3.0/bin/wrapper license.exe.so /gate
"c:\Program Files\Google\Picasa3\Picasa3.exe" "$@"
- wrapper is another shell script that sets up more environmental stuff
and finally executes picasa with wine via the wine copy at
“/opt/google/picasa/3.0/wine/bin /wine”, not any other version of wine that
you may have installed on your system.
- Executing picasa on Linux isn't really 100% wine – the /usr/bin/picasa
script executes a Linux executable:
- /opt/google/picasa/3.0/bin/picasasplash. While this may just throw
up the splash screen, it may also do more?
On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 2:23 PM, Stephen <[email protected]> wrote:
> That seems pretty new -- In Debian Unstable 1.13 is the latest.
>
> On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 12:02 PM, Edward Comer <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>> Wine version 1.2
>>
>> On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 11:57 AM, Stephen <[email protected]>wrote:
>>
>>> Yeah but which WINE are you using?
>>>
>>> I did exactly what you suggested and it installed the new Picasa, but
>>> calling it with WINE afterwards doesn't run it.
>>>
>>> I guess I'll go through it again and echo the 'message' back to the list.
>>> But I assure you it's not as easy as you make it out to be; maybe only on
>>> SuSE?
>>>
>>> ...
>>>
>>
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