Comments on: Howto Install Picasa 3.5 in ubuntu

By: Bruno Coitinho

Bruno Coitinho — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 00:47:23 +0000

I worked for version 3.6.

By: aasche

aasche — Fri, 08 Apr 2011 13:48:07 +0000

works, but printing is broken afterwards.

By: mhenriday

mhenriday — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 17:07:03 +0000

Good that it works for you, Drey ; hope Ivan will try this method as well !…

Henri

By: Drey

Drey — Sun, 27 Feb 2011 23:52:09 +0000

that is the simplest way. I did so yesterday and Picasa 3.8 works so far fine under wine.

By: mhenriday

mhenriday — Sun, 27 Feb 2011 16:22:15 +0000

Ivan and Drey, if you see the above in «Help» ? «About Picasa», then you can be assured that you are *not* using a later version. Thus, for example, when I check the above, I see the following : «Version 3.8.0 (Programversion 117.2900, 0)Picasa for Linux». If you wish to install a newer version of Picasa, download and install Wine - I recommend Ubuntu users to download and install the PPA, thus adding Picasa to one’s repository (see the instructions on http://www.winehq.org/download/deb) - and then downloading the Picasa 3.8 .exe files and opening them with Wine….

Henri

By: Drey

Drey — Sat, 26 Feb 2011 15:54:24 +0000

ivan says:
JUNE 26, 2010 AT 10:26 PM
Thanks!
I did it but when I check the version in Help/About Picasa menu, it displays : “Picasa version 3.0.0 (Build 57.4402, 0) for Linux”.
How can I know if I’m running 3.5 version ?

Same for me!

By: Marco

Marco — Sun, 16 Jan 2011 22:37:55 +0000

@Ennio
thanks for suggestion on disabling geotag !
Now my Picasa 3.5 works again …

By: Ockie

Ockie — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 19:17:00 +0000

Ennio.

Thank you very much for your help, but I just get other error messages.
In the end I decided to just keep using Picasa with Wine.

By: Ennio

Ennio — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 08:29:21 +0000

when there are “spaces” in paths such as in

… /opt/google/picasa/3.0/wine/drive_c/Program Files/Google/Picasa3

you have to write

“/opt/google/picasa/3.0/wine/drive_c/Program Files/Google/Picasa3″

in the command line, otherwise it will not recognise the intire path!

By: Ockie

Ockie — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 04:16:51 +0000

Hi. I fixed the previous problem by changing the permissions … NOW I have new error.

When I try to copy it tells me “Files/Google/Picasa3″ is not a directory.

Any help with that?

By: Ockie

Ockie — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 03:41:49 +0000

Hi.. To clarify my previous entry.
After I stalled wine and downloaded picasa3.5 or 3.8 or any windows version on picasa I get the same error.

The window reads.
Blocked: wine start /unix.

and the error message reads:
The file ‘/home/USER_NAME/Downloads/picasa35-setup.exe’ is not marked as executable. If this was downloaded or copied form an untrusted source, it may be dangerous to run. For more details, read about the executable bit.

I have used the same installation method before and it worked 100%.

I need help on this one please.

Thank you

By: Ockie

Ockie — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 03:10:29 +0000

Every time I try to install Picasa.exe I get the following error:

“the file ‘/home/ockie/Downloads/picasa38-setup.exe’ is not marked as executable. If this was downloaded or copied form an untrusted source, it may be dangerous to run. For more details, read about the executable bit.”

Advise please

By: Daren

Daren — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 14:31:06 +0000

Seems to work for me with version 3.6

Thanks!!

By: ivan

ivan — Sat, 26 Jun 2010 21:26:41 +0000

Thanks!
I did it but when I check the version in Help/About Picasa menu, it displays : “Picasa version 3.0.0 (Build 57.4402, 0) for Linux”.
How can I know if I’m running 3.5 version ?

By: juan

juan — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 21:59:40 +0000

sudo apt-get install picasa

give an error

Error de GPG: http://dl.google.com testing Release Las firmas siguientes no se pudieron verificar porque su llave pública no está disponible: NO_PUBKEY A040830F7FAC5991

How can I fix it?

By: Todd Peterson

Todd Peterson — Fri, 28 May 2010 15:48:03 +0000

@Ennio: Thanks!

By: Ennio

Ennio — Sat, 08 May 2010 00:21:01 +0000

@Rick thanks for the trick, solved my Picasa hanging… for those who want to prevent this happening again:

go to:
/opt/google/picasa/3.0/wine/drive_c/Program Files/Google/Picasa3/runtime/

and rename the “geotag” folder e.g. “geotag_disabled”

and you should be able to click on geotag icon without letting Picasa freeze. You can’t geotag either but prevents it from hanging… in order not to worry anymore…

there’s a javascript in that folder, perhaps a keen programmer could have a look at it to see whether geotagging can be fixed…

greets

By: Rio Swarawan

Rio Swarawan — Sat, 03 Apr 2010 08:42:06 +0000

hehhehe…. it works! thxx!!!

By: Metheorn

Metheorn — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 13:40:09 +0000

I’ve been using 3.5 for a while.
I’ve installed yesterday 3.6 but it don’t get my album, tag, that i use in 3.5 …
How could i recover it (don’t use the same files ?) ?
Thx

By: John

John — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 20:38:34 +0000

I do not see the advantage of having 3.5 replicated in the /opt/ folder. It takes up twice as much space this way. Will Picasa 3.5 (windows) not run under wine without installing Picasa 3.0 (linux) first?