picasa2.7beta on your ubuntu
the big g threw out a new version of picasa for linux a while ago. they prepared even a debian/ubuntu repository for it, nice idea since it makes installation and keeping the stuff from them up-to-date very smooth and easy.
on the other hand they could have made the install instructions for really newbies on ubuntu much easier.
/* and from my experience the usage of xterm / konsole beats adept or any other gui installer because you can tell the newbie / non-techie to type in exactly what you gave them and thats it. with those gui based installers there is always the discussion back and forth about if they clicked on the right button at the right time and then they have to tell you what they see .. thats crap. so, basically just give them a few lines to enter and they are perfectly fine. */
so, just follow these few steps:
- open up a 'konsole' or a 'xterm' or a 'gnome-terminal'. you can find one of them in your menu under 'system' or something similar.
- fetch the signature and tell the system about it
wget --no-check-certificate \
https://dl-ssl.google.com/linux/linux_signing_key.pub -O- | \
sudo apt-key add - - add the google repository to the list of sources
echo "deb http://dl.google.com/linux/deb/ testing non-free" | \
sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google.list - fetch all package data
sudo apt-get update
- install picasa
sudo apt-get install picasa
