HOWTO:Picasa

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Picasa cannot be installed with package-manager because its license doesn't allow anyone to distribute it freely. But you can still install it by following these instructions:

The latest version

From http://pchilfe-juergens.de/PISI-Pakete/

From this site you can select and install Picasa.

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.
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