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Picasa On Linux

Author: tedy
March 30, 2008 at 12:38
Category: Unix

Since I’ve collected many pictures from my camera, I used Picasa for manage them. Usually I using Picasa for Windows on my notebook, because in office I use Windows for work. Beside Microsoft Windows, I also installed Ubuntu Linux on my notebook. Sometimes I prefer to use Ubuntu especially when I using my notebook at home.

When I used Ubuntu, I got stuck to see my pictures collections which lay on Windows partitions. Ubuntu has F-Spot Photo Manager to provide the user a software for managing their photo collections. But I don’t like F-Spot Photo Manager, it doesn’t have good feature and poor of their user interface.

This morning I tried to search whether Google provide Picasa for Linux user. Good for Google that provide us Linux version of Picasa. I just download them from Picasa site. They provide three types of Picasa for Linux : *rpm installer, *deb installer, and *bin installer. Although I use Ubuntu which using Debian based software management, I prefer to get *bin installer. So I download the installer : picasa-2.2.2820-5.i386.bin.

For me, the *bin installer more easy to use. The step for install Picasa are like this :

To have the installer become executable, I change them using chmod command like this :
root@tedy:/home/tedy# chmod a+x picasa-2.2.2820-5.i386.bin
After that I just run them like run a executable script :root@tedy:/home/tedy# ./picasa-2.2.2820-5.i386.bin
When I run them, the installation wizard will pop up, and it’s easy for me to just follow their instructions. Same like Windows installation wizard, just click Next and Next By default Picasa will put the installation on /opt/picasa.
Yup…installation process completed for very short time. To start Picasa, just type the bin file :
root@tedy:/usr/bin# /opt/picasa/bin/picasa
See the Picasa on my Ubuntu Linux; it’s very similar with my Picasa that run on my Windows OS.