<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> Andre Mangan wrote: <blockquote cite="mid:b916baf50910251751l5cc677d5y6db79d4399019171@mail.gmail.com" type="cite"> <meta http-equiv="Context-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"> <br> <br> <div>2009/10/26 Stephen <span><<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:stephen.couling@gmail.com">stephen.couling@gmail.com</a>></span><br> <blockquote>Hi Paul<br> Thanks -<br> Tried entering the code you listed -  got this reply :<br> <br> Reading package lists... Done<br> Building dependency tree<br> Reading state information... Done<br> E: Couldn't find package picasa<br> <br> re Software Sources - no - i don't have Goodle Deb listed - what do it<br> write in Software Sources - Other software ?<br> </blockquote> </div> </blockquote> On my system i have this in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google.list:<br> deb <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://dl.google.com/linux/deb/">http://dl.google.com/linux/deb/</a> stable non-free<br> deb <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://dl.google.com/linux/deb/">http://dl.google.com/linux/deb/</a> testing non-free<br> <blockquote cite="mid:b916baf50910251751l5cc677d5y6db79d4399019171@mail.gmail.com" type="cite"> <div>... <div>Below is the direct URL to get Picasa for Ubuntu<br> ...<br> No need to change your sources list unless you want automatic updates.<br> </div> </div> </blockquote> Which you do, of course.  Unless you have a VERY good reason, there should never be a time where you don't want automatic updates on all of your software.  Security vulnerabilities pop up with alarming regularity, in the most innocuous of packages.<br> <br> And you rarely should need to change sources.list itself - you're much better off putting them in individual files in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ for each different repository you use.<br> <br> Paul<br> <br> </body> </html>