Picasa 3.0 used to work fine in my env (Ubuntu Jaunty 9.04) 32-bit.
A few weeks back I switched to 64-bit and upgraded Picasa as well to
64-bit.
The core program: display/enhance photos and web browsing/uploading
works fine.
However: since the upgrade, the camera/media detection function has
stopped working.
The symptom is:
clicking on 'import' shows a pull-down-menu with 'select-device'
but my camera doesn't appear there as it used to be.
Instead, there's a grayed-out "no devices available'.
I may be missing some component but it is not obvious which.
My sources list has:
deb http://dl.google.com/linux/deb/ stable non-free main
Trying to upgrade Picasa results in:
sudo apt-get install picasa
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
picasa is already the newest version.
The FAQ mentions something about media-detection not working in 64-bit
Picasa, in a really old version of Linux and suggests to 'upgrade' to
another ancient version of Ubuntu. Seems like this FAQ needs an
update. The latest Ubuntu is Jaunty (9.04) and in October it would be
Karmic Koala (9.10). Can someone update the FAQ?
The FAQ also mentions that media detection is done using the native
gphoto2 libraries in Linux.
However, the following (gphoto2 loading) works just fine in my env:
$ gphoto2 --auto-detect --list-cameras
$ gphoto2 --auto-detect --get-all-files
The first one
shows:
Model
Port
----------------------------------------------------------
Sony DSC-F707V (PTP mode)
usb:
Number of supported cameras:
1031
Supported cameras:
[very long list deleted]
And the download from the camera works just fine when I call gphoto2
from a shell.
While picasa 3.0 64-bit doesn't seem to agree with (or use) the
perfectly functioning gphoto2 detection.
Thanks.
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