hello all
i havent had a linux install since i put my new computer together last summer... almost a year later, im back! i just installed ubuntu 6.06, and im not going anywhere.
i am having a bit of a problem with installing picasa, google's photo managment utility.
i have the ubuntu 6.06 64 bit version installed, and i know that the picasa .deb binary is an i386 binary.

is there any way to get picasa on my 64-bit install? has anyone done it?

thanks in advance

Actually, picasso is a windows program that uses wine to run. I you have a x86_64 or similar system that can run 32 bit programs, and you can install wine, you probably can run picasso.

actually you don't need to install anything to run picassa. The package comes with its own version of wine. Wine is a 32 bit application. Just install picassa and use it. If it doesn't work post back with the problem(s).

Hi,

I just recently installed Ubuntu AMD64, and I downloaded the picassa debian package. I also have the 32-bit libraries installed to be able to run 32-bit programs, however, when I attempt to install the i386 package, it tells me that it can't due to the wrong architecture. The picasa website mentions that picasa will run on ubuntu 64-bit if the correct libs are installed, but not how to go about installing picasa. Any suggestions?

Thanks,
Q

I wish I could help, cause I'm currently trying to figure out how to do this myself. I'll post back if i'm successful.

I just did it.. you need to force the architecture since it's only built as a 32 bit program:

I love it how it's so simple, but i hate it cause I'm sure its been that easy long before i ever tried it, But none of us knew. Amazing...
Good find thoffland and thanks, it worked like a charm so far

did you get picasa installed?! it didn't work for me!

i did this in a terminal:

sudo dpkg -i --force-architecture picasa_2.2.2820-5_i386.deb

it worked with no errors. then i see the picasa icon in the Graphics menu. nothing happens. i click on it again and nothing happens. so then i find this:

picasa.google.com/linux/faq.html#2

so then i go to synaptic package manager and install the ia32-libs packages. then i launch picasa again and something happens! it asks me to agree to the license agreement. so, i'm like f*ck yeah! i click agree and nothing happens. i click on the picasa icon in the graphics menu again and nothing happens!

am i missing a step?!?!?! how did you get it to work?

i'm running ubuntu 6.10 with the amd 64 architecture and i'm a total linux newbie. i JUST switched from windows and i need a lot of help.

this fixed it!!!!

http://groups.google.com/group/Googl...e5f7b7ea8e1ae7