I'm sure it is, however it's not proven that those capabilities are used
with Picasa. Anyway going to add it the KNOL on the subject as a user
alternative.

On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 11:59 PM, Patrick Shanahan <[email protected]>wrote:

> * Stephen <[email protected]> [05-27-11 23:45]:
> > Like this rather than installing my distros WINE which pulled in huge
> > dependencies. Incidentally Alan which distro was this on?
> >
> > On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 2:14 PM, Alan Cummings <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >
> > > Patrick Shanahan wrote:
> > >
> > >  * Jim<[email protected]>  [05-25-11 23:38]:
> > >>
> > >>> >  I have installed Picasa on Ubuntu 11.04 on my netbook and I can
> find
> > >>> >  it in the applications launcher but it won't open. I have tried
> > >>> >  reinstalling.
> > >>> >
> > >>> >  How can I get Picasa to open?
> > >>>
> > >> what version of picasa did you install?
> > >>
> > >> suggestion: if not the windows installer, picasa38-setup.exe, remove
> the
> > >> version you installed and download and install picasa38-setup.exe for
> > >> windows, ie:
> > >>    wine ./picasa38-setup.exe
> > >>
> > >> This should provide a working menu launcher or picasa and if you have
> > >>
> > >> problems with that, the following from the command-line will work:
> > >>   wine "c://Program Files (x86)//Google//Picasa//Picasa3.exe"
> > >>
> > >
> > > When I upgraded to 3.8 on my machine I did it a different way. Since I
> > > already had 3.0beta installed and since Picasa is the only wine
> dependent
> > > program I use, I did the following:
> > >
> > > From the terminal..
> > >
> > > cd /opt/google/picasa/3.0/wine/drive_c/
> > >
> > > wget http://dl.google.com/picasa/picasa38-setup.exe
> > >
> > > WINEPREFIX=/opt/google/picasa/3.0/wine/ /opt/google/picasa/3.0/wine
> > > /bin/wine /opt/google/picasa/3.0/wine/drive_c/picasa38-setup.exe
> > >
> > >
> > > Nice and easy! 3.8 installed and using the existing wine install from
> 3.0.
> > >
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> So you would prefer to put new paint on a old building.  Your choice, but
> the newer wine is undoubtedly more capable.
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