Getting Google Picasa working on Fedora release 18 (Spherical Cow)
Hello,
I have made the plunge, upgrading my Fedora 17 to Fedora 18. It is working very well, and my software is working with exception of one application. I occassionally run the old Google Picasa 3.0 for Linux. It is delivered as an RPM called picasa-3.0-current.i386.rpm It is failing on the install on Fedora 18. I am installing it with, Code:
rpm -ivh ./picasa-3.0-current.i386.rpm Code:
error: Failed dependencies: - Raj |
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Is there a way to convert the command rpm -ivh to a yum command?
To answer your question, I usuallly don't use Picasa for much of anything. It was the last application that I really ever booted XP up to use. It has a feature to look through your entire picture repository really quickly with small renderings of your pictures. Google has decided to not support Picasa on the Linux platform, thus my usage of the Beta release 3.0 of Picasa. For photo editing, I use GIMP on Linux instead of Adobe Photoshop on Windows, and I usually use the browsing capability of Nautilus to look at the small renderings of the photos. Sometimes, I have to quickly scan the library for a particular picture and Picasa is a very fast tool for that. - Raj |
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I tried to re-install Picasa, to no avail. Looks like it is looking for the library libgphoto2.so.2. Here is the error I get. I tried Gwenview and it is Ok. I miss the seamless way that Picasa handles your whole image collection. I am installing digikam right now.
- Raj Code:
# yum install picasa-3.0-current.i386.rpm |
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Well,
I instaled digikam, and it is OK. It takes awhile to do the initial scan of the pictures, but I could wait. IMHO not as good as Picasa. Just for fun, I opened picasa-3.0-current.i386.rpm with Archive Manager and discovered it is actually a Windows application with a Wine wrapper. I was kind of opposed to Wine for anything on Linux because this is Linux, and really why do you need to run a crummy Windows app on it anyway when their is probably a FOSS version of it out there somewhere, but I thought it would be a good challenge. I installed Wine, and continued on my journey. I downloaded the newest Picasa 3.9 from CNET Download, and went to work installing / configuring it. I got it working, and created a simple shell script to launch Picasa. Code:
#!/bin/sh I really like Linux as you can configure just about everything, and there is about a dozen ways to solve the same problem. Thanks for everyone's help! - Raj |
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