Picasa is software that helps you instantly find, edit and share all the pictures and images on your PC.

Every time you open Picasa, it automatically locates all your pictures (even ones you forgot you had) and sorts them into visual albums organized by date with folder names you will recognize. You can drag and drop to arrange your albums and make labels to create new groups.

Picasa makes sure your pictures are always organized.

You can always add pictures manually through Picasa > Tools > Folder Manager.

Picasa can be installed in 2 different ways. The "easy way" version also has face recognition software on board.

Contents 1 The easy way 1.1 Add software source 1.2 Installation 2 From the Linux (.deb) source 2.1 From Google website

The easy way

Add software source

Add the following source to your Package Manager

• For Pardus 2011-i686 (32 bit)

Name: pardususer.de
Address: http://pakete.pardususer.de/pardus-2011/i686/pisi-index.xml.xz

in console with: sudo pisi ar pardususer.de http://pakete.pardususer.de/pardus-2011/i686/pisi-index.xml.xz -y

• For Pardus 2011-x86_64 (64 bit)

Name: pardususer.de
Address: http://pakete.pardususer.de/pardus-2011/x86_64/pisi-index.xml.xz

in console with: sudo pisi ar pardususer.de http://pakete.pardususer.de/pardus-2011/x86_64/pisi-index.xml.xz -y

• For Pardus 2009

Name: pardususer.de
Address: http://pakete.pardususer.de/pardus-2009/pisi-index.xml.bz2

in console with: sudo pisi ar pardususer.de http://pakete.pardususer.de/pardus-2009/pisi-index.xml.bz2 -y

Installation

Picasa can now be installed in Package Manager (after doing a "Show Upgradable Packages").

It is necessary to be connected to the internet as some additional files will be downloaded by the installation script.

During installation the progress-bar will hold for some time wile downloading and unpacking the additional files.

From the Linux (.deb) source

From Google website

1. Go to http://picasa.google.com/linux/ and select (at this moment)

    Download Picasa 3 for Linux

   and select version

   deb, for Debian/Ubuntu

2. Open Konsole and check required packages

    sudo pisi it binutils 

3. Cd to downloaded .deb file

    cd ~/Desktop 

4. Use ar to extract the installation archive from deb

    ar x picasa_*.deb data.tar.gz 

5. Delete downloaded .deb file

    rm -f picasa_*.deb 

6. Move archive to top directory

    sudo mv data.tar.gz /. 

7. Goto this directory

    cd / 

8. Unpack archive

    sudo tar zxf data.tar.gz 

9. Delete the archive

    sudo rm -f data.tar.gz 

10. Add an item for Picasa 3 to K Menu

     kdesu kwrite /usr/share/applications/picasa3.desktop 

    After entering the root password an empty KWrite window will appear and Copy/Paste the following 7 lines in this window:

    [Desktop Entry]

    Name=Picasa 3

    Exec=/opt/google/picasa/3.0/bin/picasa

    Terminal=false

    Type=Application

    Icon=/opt/google/picasa/3.0/desktop/picasa32x32.xpm

    Categories=Application;Graphics

    Select [Save] and [Close] KWrite.
11. Close the Konsole
12. You can find Picasa 3 in Pardus > Programs > Graphics.