How to install Picasa 3.0 beta in Ubuntu
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Important Note:- This is still in beta version and it might break your System
New Features
- Improved integration with Picasa Web Albums
- You can sync your Picasa 3 and Web Albums edits, change your online album settings from Picasa, and delete online albums from Picasa.
- Better uploading with the upload Drop-box and bandwidth throttling.
- New Retouch tool to remove unsightly blemishes and improve photo quality.
- Improved Collage tool lets you have total artistic control over your collage content and layout.
- Auto red-eye: same results, less work for you.
- Easily add text or watermarks to your photos.
Linux specific changes / improvements
- User data are now stored in ~/.google/picasa/.
- Camera/media detection integrated with Gnome/KDE.
- Mozilla/Firefox browser integration done via a plugin.
- picasa:// urls work in Firefox 3.
- Downloading albums from Picasa Web Albums launches faster.
- Better Xinerama support.
Remove existing Picasa
If you are using stable version you have to remove using the following command
sudo apt-get remove picasa
Install Picasa 3.0 beta in ubuntu
Import the google key using the following command
wget -q -O -- https://dl-ssl.google.com/linux/linux_signing_key.pub | sudo apt-key add --
sudo apt-get update
Edit the /etc/apt/sources.list file
sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list
add the following line
# Google testing repository
deb http://dl.google.com/linux/deb/ testing non-free
save and exit the file.
Update the source list file using the following command
sudo apt-get update
Install picasa using the following command
sudo apt-get install picasa
got error:
sudo wget -q -O – https://dl-ssl.google.com/linux/linux_signing_key.pub | apt-key add -apt-get update
gpg: Invalid option “-apt-get”
modified:
sudo wget -q -O – https://dl-ssl.google.com/linux/linux_signing_key.pub | apt-key add | apt-get update
gpg: can’t open `’: No such file or directory
E: Could not open lock file /var/lib/apt/lists/lock – open (13 Permission denied)
E: Unable to lock the list directory
any clue
Thanks
Ramesh
Unfortunately when I try to use this command that you gave: “sudo wget -q -O – https://dl-ssl.google.com/linux/linux_signing_key.pub | apt-key add -apt-get update”, I get the following error:
gpg: Invalid option “-apt-get”
@Ramesh&andre
Correct key was
sudo wget -q -O – https://dl-ssl.google.com/linux/linux_signing_key.pub | apt-key add –
I have updated the article now after that run the following command
sudo apt-get update
When I run, I have the error:
gpg: no writable keyring found: eof
gpg: error reading `-‘: general error
gpg: import from `-‘ failed: general error
That work:
1.using the following command
wget https://dl-ssl.google.com/linux/linux_signing_key.pub
2.using the following command
sudo apt-key add linux_signing_key.pub
It was a fairly easy error to commit,
Its not the wget that needs the “sudo” but the “apt-key” so the correct command (one liner) should be :
wget -q -O – https://dl-ssl.google.com/linux/linux_signing_key.pub | sudo apt-key add –
Cheers,
flourenco
@flourenco
Thanks for your comment and i have updated the article now
Is this native Linux, or does it run on top of a custom wine install like other versions?
@Crjackson
This is native linux version
This is linux version, but .deb with wine 🙂
Figures – Not interested in the wine version.
very good
Will this destroy my album definitions from Picasa 2.7, and if so is there any way to keep them?
Thanks. This worked a treat. 🙂
I agree with crjackson; why does Google force a wine implementation with the package, not caring if another installation of wine is already present in the target system?
If they do it out of assuming that people wont know the difference and need to be spoon fed, well that would be just plain arrogant; IMO they should provide with packages with and without wine and allow people to decide which version they want to install, and the version with wine is to be provided only because probably someone out there wants to run *only* picasa under wine and so they could use an embedded package.
Otherwise why have *two* version of wine installed?
Try this.. its working for me
wget -q -O – https://dl-ssl.google.com/linux/linux_signing_key.pub | sudo apt-key add | sudo apt-get update
Bye
Thanks for this, very helpful.
whenever i try to run the command
wget -q -O – https://dl-ssl.google.com/linux/linux_signing_key.pub | sudo apt-key add –
i get a message like this
gpg: no valid OpenPGP data found.
what should i do
The problem is with the hyphen after the -O parameter … the symbol is NOT a normal hyphen … type it in instead of copy/paste (and use normal hyphen instead!) and you’ll find it works just fine!
When is the native linux version to be released, please, please, Mr & Mrs Google???
Other than that – thanks for this – it’s great!
Bill’s fix worked for that step.
this works great…..thankz a lot
Worked at first try! Yoo…hoo.
Thanks!
If only it weren’t WINE…
For those getting the gpg: no valid OpenPGP data found. use this command instead:
wget –no-check-certificate -q -O – https://dl-ssl.google.com/linux/linux_signing_key.pub | apt-key add –
setup your repository with:
sudo sh -c ‘echo “deb http://dl.google.com/linux/deb/ testing non-free” >> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google.list’
because I found that the one above doesn’t quite work… its probably because I’m using 11.10… but anyway, there’s the solution…