http://picasa.google.com/linux/download.html now has links for Picasa 2.7 Beta, available as rpm or deb packages. Existing 2.2 ebuild relies on self extracting distribution file, so cannot be renamed. Full set of new features are listed at URL above, most notable is + Upload to Picasa Web Albums Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce:
I've been using picasa 2.7 with wine to get the "Upload to Picasa Web Albums" feature. It worked well, but I'd have to manually kill processes after closing Picasa. I've downloaded the rpm version and installed it by: 1. Download rpm version 2. Used rpm2targz to convert pkg. 3. Extracted to /opt/picasa (path from tarball) 4. Manually created Desktop and menu items. I couldn't find an install script anywhere in the pkg. So far, it works very well and the processes all terminate on closing (Picasa2.exe, winserver, explorer.exe)
(In reply to comment #1) > I've been using picasa 2.7 with wine to get the "Upload to Picasa Web Albums" > feature. It worked well, but I'd have to manually kill processes after closing > Picasa. > > I've downloaded the rpm version and installed it by: > 1. Download rpm version > 2. Used rpm2targz to convert pkg. > 3. Extracted to /opt/picasa (path from tarball) > 4. Manually created Desktop and menu items. > > I couldn't find an install script anywhere in the pkg. So far, it works very > well and the processes all terminate on closing (Picasa2.exe, winserver, > explorer.exe) > No time to make an ebuild, but emerging picasa-2.2.2820.5, removing /opt/picasa and doing the 3 first steps above works perfectly for me :-)
For me, 2.7 beta doesn't work. Startup screen shows and splash screen stays visible all the time. Originally, I did: cd / rpm2cpio < picasa-2.7.3736-7.i386.rpm | cpio -id But I also tried to use rpm2targz, which did not make any difference at all (as was to be expected...).
Created attachment 140281 [details] ebuild for Picasa 2.7 Beta for Linux I haven't touched RDEPEND, it's probably right. Also I dunno why there is RESTRICT="strip", so I didn't touch it either. Also i removed setpicasascreensaver from /usr/bin (if you read README, it's probably what upstream want) and added picasafontcfg (you'll need it, if you want russian characters for example). This ebuild doesn't install fontconfig lib, which is included in rpm, because system one works fine. It works for me on x86, hope it would for you too.
Just installed using the attached ebuild (Created 2008-01-06), and it works for me on x86, BUT... The application icons are changed around a little bit in Gnome: [Icon Name : New Location : Old Location] Picasa : Applications --> Other : Applications --> Graphics Picasa Font Settings : Applications --> Other : (N/A) Picasa Media Detector : (unchanged) : Applications --> Graphics
(In reply to comment #3) > For me, 2.7 beta doesn't work. Startup screen shows and splash screen stays > visible all the time. For whatever reason, picasa now works fine for me as well. It would be great to see this version to hit the tree, before Google realeases another version ;)
It look that there is two small bugs: for amd64: in /opt/picasa/bin/repackage32.sh call to "ldconfig" instead of "/sbin/ldconfig" for amd64/x86? The official wine version works better than the one given with picasa. (add wine as a dependancy?) For me it works fine now...
The whole point of linux version is that wine is shipped within package. It's upstream problem if official wine works better, i think they will update wine version used for picasa before the release.
The link to download it from http://dl.google.com/linux/rpm/testing/i386/picasa-2.7.3736-7.i386.rpm is down, in fact the whole http://dl.google.com/linux is not there anymore. Maybe some temporary problem at google. I found alternate download at ftp://chuck.ucs.indiana.edu/pub/array2/linux/pclinuxos/pclinuxos/apt/pclinuxos/2007/RPMS.nonfree/picasa-2.7.3736-7.i386.rpm in case someone else has the same problem.
They have done a new release of 2.7 and not yet updated the download page. Replace the last 7 in the version with 11 in the links to get the new version. I did not try the old one, but this one works very well for me. All processes terminate as they should, web upload works. I just rpm2tar'ed, untar'ed and executed it inplace from temporary directory. I'm on x86.
Just renaming my ebuild to picasa-2.7.3736.11.ebuild works fine.
thank you, fixed :-)
