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Install Picasa 2.7 under 64 bit Ubuntu Fiesty (7.04)

my first serious contribution to the Ubuntu community: How to: install Picasa 2.7 under 64 bit Ubuntu Fiesty (7.04) It's kind of sad that it is about a non-free app, but after flailing around with F-Spot and Digikam and gthumb, I've succumbed to the siren song of a well polished and easy to use UI (with a big push from my wife who needs to share the computer with me).

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  1. Install official google linux picasa version, forcing architecture from 32bit to 64bit
sudo su # (or simply log in as root)
aptitude update
aptitude -y install ia32-libs ia32-libs-gtk linux32
wget http://dl.google.com/linux/deb/pool/…820-5_i386.deb
dpkg –force-architecture -i picasa_2.2.2820-5_i386.deb

Start Picasa, let it run (need to answer a few Q's on first run), scan
a few folders. Shut Picasa down, and the media detector too.

(normal 32bit install instructions at http://www.google.com/linuxrepositories/apt.html)
(force example from http://groups.google.com/group/Googl…5805bbef?hl=en)

​2. install wine (or crossover, which is what I used)

sudo apt-get install wine

​3. install msttcorefonts, (important! otherwise picasa will hang at the splash screen.)

sudo apt-get install msttcorefonts

(http://appdb.winehq.org/commentview….ThreadId=21197)

​4. download and install windows version, which is 2.7 at the time of this writing, Copy 2.7 directory in place of 2.2.

wget http://dl.google.com/picasa/picasawe...rent-setup.exe
wine picasaweb-current-setup.exe
sudo su
cd /opt/picasa/wine/drive_c/Program\ Filesmv Picasa2 Picasa22
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# for crossover
# cp -R home/USERNAME/.cxoffice/win98/drive_c/Program\
Files/Picasa2 Picasa2
# for wine
cp -R home/USERNAME/.wine/drive_c/Program\ Files/Picasa2 Picasa2

(adapted from http://groups.google.com/group/Googl…e=source&hl=en)

​5. Now running Picasa from Applications>Graphics>Picasa should start v2.7 (go to Help>About to confirm).

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The part that had me chasing my tail for the longest (days!) is that without the MS corefonts installed Picasa 2.7 hangs at the splash screen. I don't know if this is the best route, it's just the one which has worked for me. I haven't tried uploading to webalbums or any of the other new features (the only reason I want 2.7 is so that added keywords are embedded in the actual image).

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Update 18-Aug-2007: Fixed the dpkg -force line, I'd had the parameters transposed. Thank you Apodaca for the correction.

Comments {#commentz}#

  1. Apodaca wrote:

    Correction on the command to install picasa:

    dpkg –force-architecture -i picasa_2.2.2820-5_i386.deb

    Posted 20 Aug 2007 at 6:28 am

  2. jim wrote:

    I just bought a new asus computer and it runs on a 64 win app I want to load the latest picasa but cant—can u help??
    does picasa make a 64 win application??

    Posted 25 Sep 2009 at 9:03 pm

  3. matt wilkie wrote:

    Jim, as far as I know there is not a 64bit version of Picasa. However I have regular Picasa installed at work on 64bit Windows XP, without difficulty.

    There is this thread here[0] which reports a workaround by using the Google Updater[1] to install instead of the normal picasa setup.

    [0] http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Picasa/thread?tid=12be71072737a773&hl=en
    [1] http://pack.google.com/intl/en/pack_installer.html?nopers

    Posted 27 Sep 2009 at 8:49 pm

date: 2010-03-29
tags: [linux]
category: Linux