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Fatih

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From: Ankara-Türkiye

Registered: 2005-12-17

Posts: 67

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Picasa 2.7 Beta released

Google released the new beta for Linux users. It still uses Wine, but there is a lot of bug fixes and improvements(like web-upload to picasaweb). However here is the link:

http://picasa.google.com/linux/download.html

How can we install it on Archlinux ? There ara only deb and rpm packages.

pjeremy

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Registered: 2007-04-03

Posts: 66

Re: Picasa 2.7 Beta released

Read the FAQ.

Q:  I miss the .bin package. Why is it gone, and how can I install Picasa 2.7 in my home directory?

We no longer ship a .bin because we prefer users to add our repository to their package manager, and use their system's normal autoupdate to pick up new versions of Picasa automatically.

If you really can't or don't want to use a .rpm or .deb package manager, you can still do a manual install into your home directory by unpacking the .deb or .rpm package. For instance, to unpack the .deb package manually, do:

cd $HOME
ar x picasa_*.deb data.tar.gz
tar zxf data.tar.gz

You can then run Picasa with the command:

$HOME/opt/picasa/bin/picasa

You probably want to make an icon, shortcut, or symlink for that so you only have to type it once!

Fatih

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From: Ankara-Türkiye

Registered: 2005-12-17

Posts: 67

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Re: Picasa 2.7 Beta released

Thanks pjeremy. Other's can see now the instructions how to install it on Archlinux.