installing picasa

[James McKenzie]

On 7/20/11 2:41 PM, Richard Shaw wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 4:30 PM, Robert Vargas<robertjvargas2 at aol.com>  wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> Can anyone help me.
>> I'am trying to install google picasa3.0 without wine.
>> I downloaded 3.0 and it opens for a second or two then disappers ?
> You didn't say what version of Fedora you're running but since at
> least F14, I've needed to copy wine-preloader from the current wine
> package into /opt/google/picasa/3.0/wine/bin/ and for internet
> connectivity (Picasa Web Albums) you also need to copy over
> "wininet.dll" into /opt/google/picasa/3.0/wine/lib/wine.
You will need to install Wine to use Picasa in Linux.

Reference Google and their implementation of Picasa.  Wine is also 
needed to run it on MacOSX.

James