Picasa

How to install Picasa image organizer

this is from Kubuntu docs:

Read #General Notes

sudo kate /etc/apt/sources.list

Add the following lines at the end of file:

# Google Picasa for Linux repository
deb http://dl.google.com/linux/deb/ stable non-free

Save the edited file





sudo apt-get update

this gave me an error: W: GPG error: http://dl.google.com stable Release: The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY A040830F7FAC5991
W: Failed to fetch http://dl.google.com/linux/deb/dists/stable/non-free/binary-i386/Packages  404  Not Found [IP: 74.125.226.4 80]

so we need to install the Public Key for the google depository first !


donald@Kubuntu:~$ wget -q -O - http://dl.google.com/linux/linux_signing_key.pub | sudo apt-key add -
OK


running sudo apt-get update again gave me a more gentile error:
W: Failed to fetch http://dl.google.com/linux/deb/dists/stable/Release  Unable to find expected entry 'non-free/binary-i386/Packages' in Release file (Wrong sources.list entry or malformed file)

E: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead.

sudo apt-get install picasa
Error: could not find the package ?


donald@Kubuntu:~$ sudo apt-get install picasa                                            
Reading package lists... Done                                                                    
Building dependency tree                                                                                
Reading state information... Done                                                                          
E: Unable to locate package picasa                                                                            
donald@Kubuntu:~$ ^C
Second Method Attempted: wget http://packages.linuxmint.com//pool/import/p/picasa/picasa_3.0.5744-02_i386.d
donald@Kubuntu:~$ sudo apt-get install picasa                                            
Reading package lists... Done                                                                    
Building dependency tree                                                                                
Reading state information... Done                                                                          
E: Unable to locate package picasa                                                                            
donald@Kubuntu:~$ ^C

OK, so I tried reinstalling an older debian package I had downloaded previously:

sudo dpkg -i picasa_3.0.5744-02_i386.deb

It seemed to work, but I could not log into the website to upload pictures.

[930429] id 5: Error: HttpOpenRequest failed (12157) 

solution found here: 

For anyone else who encounters this problem then good news - solution 
found. 

If you've not already done so then install Wine. Now all you have to 
do is copying the wininet.dll.so file from /usr/lib/wine/ to /opt/ 
google/picasa/3.0/wine/lib/wine/ overwriting the one that's there. 
Picasa should now work