crouse
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 Posted: Wed Jun 21, 2024 5:43 pm Post subject: Google's Picasa for Linux |
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Google's Picasa for Linux.
http://picasa.google.com/linux/
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Picasa is software that helps you instantly find, edit and share all the pictures on your computer. Every time you open Picasa, it automatically locates all your pictures (even ones you forgot you had) and sorts them into visual albums organized by date with folder names you will recognize. You can drag and drop to arrange your albums and make labels to create new groups. Picasa makes sure your pictures are always organized.
Picasa also makes advanced editing simple by putting one-click fixes and powerful effects at your fingertips. And Picasa makes it a snap to share your pictures – you can email, print photos home, and even post pictures on your own blog.
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Here is an install script that I wrote for Linux. The install defaults to /opt/picasa
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#!/bin/sh
# File: installGP.sh
# Install Google's Picasa for Linux on OpenSUSE 10.1
# Created by Crouse from opensuse.us
# Downloads and Installs Google's Picasa (26 MB) for Linux also creates a desktop icon for all users on the system.
checkforroot ()
{
ROOT_UID=0
if [ "$UID" -ne "$ROOT_UID" ]
then
echo ""
echo "**************** ERROR !! **************"
echo "You must be logged in as root to run this script"
echo "Please log in as root and re-run this script."
echo "**************** ERROR !! **************"
exit
fi
}
checkforroot
cd /
wget http://dl.google.com/linux/standalone/picasa-2.2.2820-5.i386.bin
chmod a+x picasa-2.2.2820-5.i386.bin
./picasa-2.2.2820-5.i386.bin
# You can comment the line below out if you don't want to install an icon on everyones kde desktop.
for i in /home/* ;do cp /opt/picasa/desktop/google-picasa.desktop /$i/Desktop/google-picasa.desktop; done
rm -i picasa-2.2.2820-5.i386.bin
exit
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RELEASE NOTES for Picasa
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May 12, 2024 Picasa For Linux Beta Release Version 2.2.2820-5
THANKS:
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The Picasa product was brought to the Linux platform with the
help of a variety of Free and Open Source Software projects.
We are grateful to the authors and owners of these projects for
allowing us to use their work. The nature of the licenses for
these projects does give you some additional rights,
please refer to the LICENSE.FOSS file for more details.
INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS:
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To install either the RPM or Debian package format version of Picasa,
use your normal procedures to install the Picasa package. Consult
the documentation for your Linux system for more help.
If you choose to use the self installing version of Picasa,
then you simply invoke the installer. In some Linux environments,
you can double click on the file and ask to run it. In all
Linux environments, you can open a terminal window and run
a command that would look something like this:
sh picasa-2.2.2820-5.i386.run
You can install either as a regular user, in which case
only you will have access to the Picasa program,
or as the root user, in which case everyone will be
able to run the program. It should work either way.
KNOWN ISSUES:
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This product is a Beta release, and as such, it has a number
of known flaws and shortcomings. We will also update the web
site as we uncover new issues and information on how to workaround
those issues.
The known issues are as follows:
1689 You can't backup pictures or burn CDs
1423 There are areas where the Windows roots of Picasa
shine through. For example, the opening dialog should
really have an option to scan just the home directory.
These issues will hopefully be addressed in the next major release.
1445 Your camera may not be automatically detected and handled. Picasa
works best with cameras that report themselves to Linux as storage
devices, although PTP cameras should show up under the 'Import'
menu as well. Also, you need to have HAL and a fairly modern
kernel (e.g. >= 2.6.13) in order for this to work.
Special thanks to Marcus Meissner for his aid in helping
gphoto support work, so that we could support PTP cameras.
1492 The system tray does not close with loss of focus
(if you bring up the media detector menu, you have
to either start picasa or stop the media detector
to get the menu to go away)
1658 If you have an NFS mounted home directory, the
performance may be poor. Picasa relies heavily
on a lot of files in the ~/.picasa directory,
and if the home directory is slow, then Picasa
will be slow. You can work around this by
making a directory in /var/opt/picasa/$LOGNAME/ that
corresponds to your username. You have to have
full rights to that directory.
1542 Picasa notices don't stay on a given desktop
Picasa pops up notices to let you know it's found new photos
or has added photos to its library. These notices come
on the current desktop; some users would rather they
stayed on the same desktop that Picasa itself was on.
1696 Gmail is not the default email client, Picasa mail is
Some Linux users feel that Gmail should be the default,
since Hello mail is not yet supported under Linux
1619 On Ubuntu 5.10, the 'Ctrl-K' shortcut for keywords
doesn't behave correctly. Using the menu works right.
1546 You can sometimes get the library list to have
a large blank space, scrolling removes it.
(This is really mostly a cosmetic glitch)
1661 Dual head video cards don't work properly with Picasa for
slideshows and timelines and so operate in a fallback mode.
1554 Blogging - the palette selector is truncated
1610 Music playback during slideshow doesn't work
1521 The opening Picasa dialog has a spin loop and consumes
a lot of CPU
1448 We do not support browsing to hidden directories
1697 Running Picasa with SELinux enabled may cause problems.
You may want to invoke this command:
setenforce 0
prior to running Picasa if you have problems on Fedora
(or other SELinux enabled systems).
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Veronica - Arch Linux 64-bit -- Kernel 2.6.33.4-1
Archie/Jughead - Arch Linux 32-bit -- Kernel 2.6.33.4-1
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BumbleBee - OpenSolaris-SunOS 5.11
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