On Saturday, May 21, 2011 12:32:04 AM UTC+2, [email protected] wrote: > > * Theo <[email protected]> [05-20-11 17:03]: > > I am using Picasa for Linux under Ubuntu 10.10. > > Please be advised: > There is *no* version of picasa *for* linux, only a windows version > distributed with a tweaked version of wine, mis-labled as "for linux". > > The version you have is old, 3.0. > > Download and install a current version of wine and the latest windows > version of picasa, picasa38-setup.exe, and install it: > wine ./picasa38-setup.exe > > If you have problems/questions, come back and you will receive help. > > > I have installed "Picasa Version 3.8.0 (Build 117.4300,0)for Linux.", > which I installed from the windows version cited above, > picasa38-setup.exe, running on openSUSE 11.4 x86_64 in > wine-1.3.12-3.4.x86_64. > > -- > (paka)Patrick Shanahan Plainfield, Indiana, USA HOG # US1244711 > http://wahoo.no-ip.org Photo Album: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/gallery2 > http://en.opensuse.org openSUSE Community Member > Registered Linux User #207535 @ http://counter.li.org >
I submit that the fault here is not on the part of Theo or the many others that have posted similar messages, but rather on the part of Google. When on Ubuntu 10.10 I type in www.picasa.google.com, the *webpage<http://picasa.google.com/linux/> * that opens still points the user to a long obsolete beta version of Picasa, which had Wine inbuilt. That this leads to confusion on the part of users is hardly surprising. My suggestion would instead be to point Linux users instead to a Picasa help message which explains how to download Wine and the latest version of Picasa for Windows and how to run the latter in the former. Then, hopefully, we would no longer receive these messages, and no one would find it necessary to react by saying «Good grief. Not again.» It should be remembered that while for us habitués of this forum, such messages are not new, but they certainly new for those posting them.... Henri -- 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.
