Installing Picasa 3 on Karmic Koala

Stephen stephen.couling at gmail.com
Sun Oct 25 22:50:07 GMT 2009


Hi Paul
Thanks -
Tried entering the code you listed -  got this reply :

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Couldn't find package picasa

re Software Sources - no - i don't have Goodle Deb listed - what do it
write in Software Sources - Other software ?

S

On 25 Oct, 18:35, Paul Gear <p... at libertysys.com.au> wrote:
> Aryan Ameri wrote:
> > On Sat, 2009-10-24 at 04:06 -0700, Stephen wrote:
>
> >> Hello everyone
> >> I am a complete newby here and have already encountered a problem with
> >> Karmic Koala.
>
> > I know this isn't what you are looking for, but I'd strongly adivse
> > against using Picasa on Linux. It's a horrid port, using wine, so bad
> > that Google didn't bother porting 3.5.
>
> > For a photo management program, try F-spot or gtkam.
>
> I'm going to have to disagree there.  I tried f-spot, gtkam, and several
> others, and could never find one that managed photos as well as Picasa.
> For me (on jaunty), Picasa has been stable, easy to use, and has the
> library management features i'm looking for (like being able to actually
> index 15K photos without crashing).
>
> Stephen, do you have the Google deb repository defined in your software
> sources?  If so, just try opening a terminal and running 'sudo apt-get
> install picasa'.
>
> Paul
>
>  paul.vcf
> < 1KViewDownload
>
>  smime.p7s
> 6KViewDownload
>
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