Written by Nick Koch

Saturday, 06 September 2008 13:21

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With all the focus on Google right now I thought I'd write a nice howto with the latest version of Picasa running on Wine. Interestingly enough, Picasa recognizes that it is running on Linux even though it is running through Wine.

Installation is very simple just imitate the following below:

20:28 christoff:~ > wine --version

wine-1.1.3

20:28 christoff:~ > winecfg

wine: created the configuration directory '/home/nick/.wine'

Could not load Mozilla. HTML rendering will be disabled.

wine: configuration in '/home/nick/.wine' has been updated.

20:29 christoff:~ > wget http://dl.google.com/picasa/picasa3-setup.exe

--2008-09-06 20:30:41--  http://dl.google.com/picasa/picasa3-setup.exe

Resolving dl.google.com... 209.85.135.91, 209.85.135.190, 209.85.135.93, ...

Connecting to dl.google.com|209.85.135.91|:80... connected.

HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK

Length: 7808576 (7.4M) [application/octet-stream]

Saving to: `picasa3-setup.exe'



100%[==================================>] 7,808,576   46.7K/s   in 2m 23s  -



2008-09-06 20:33:06 (53.3 KB/s) - `picasa3-setup.exe' saved [7808576/7808576]



20:33 christoff:~ > wine picasa3-setup.exe