Can't even run picasa36-setup.exe in wine

[Jonathan Kamens]

I've got wine 1.1.32 on a 32-bit x86 Fedora Rawhide system. I
downloaded picasa36-setup.exe, blew away ~/.wine entirely, and ran "wine
picasa36-setup.exe". It's been running for ten or fifteen minutes now,
with both PicasaUpdater and wineserver sucking CPU and otherwise
apparently doing nothing.

Whatever y'all did to enable you to install picasa 3.6 under a generic
wine installation, it doesn't appear to work for me.

Any suggestions?

jik

[Patrick Shanahan]

* Jonathan Kamens <j...@kamens.brookline.ma.us> [12-13-09 22:13]:

Second that. I cannot install 3.5 or 3.6 via wine in openSUSE 11.2 x86_64.
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[baubusiukas]

Picasa 3.6 installs and runs fine on Ubuntu Karmic with wine 1.0.1
Upgraded picasa linux version by replacing files from wine version to
linux version (same procedure as 3.5)

On 14 Gruo, 05:59, Patrick Shanahan <ptilopt...@gmail.com> wrote:
> * Jonathan Kamens <j...@kamens.brookline.ma.us> [12-13-09 22:13]:
>
> > I've got wine 1.1.32 on a 32-bit x86 Fedora Rawhide system.  I
> > downloaded picasa36-setup.exe, blew away ~/.wine entirely, and ran "wine
> > picasa36-setup.exe".  It's been running for ten or fifteen minutes now,
> > with both PicasaUpdater and wineserver sucking CPU and otherwise
> > apparently doing nothing.
>
> > Whatever y'all did to enable you to install picasa 3.6 under a generic
> > wine installation, it doesn't appear to work for me.
>
> > Any suggestions?
>
> Second that.  I cannot install 3.5 or 3.6 via wine in openSUSE 11.2 x86_64.
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[Jose Gómez]

Actually, I have found Picasa 3.6 to run MUUUCH faster than 3.5 with
the face recognition on and all, under the pre-packaged Wine and the
3.0 deb.

I installed Picasa in Wine (latest version) with no problems, and then
moved the folder.

[promeneur]

see there

http://wiki.winehq.org/picasa

chapter "Windows version"

[promeneur]

addendum

my previous message is :

- to know how to well install Picasa
- to avoid ennoyance from picasaupdater.exe

[Rick Hallock]

Did you first install picasa 3.0 for linux?

The instructions I followed, said to first install picasa for linux (that sets up a special wine version)

then install picasa using wine.

Then copy the new folder to folder picasa for linux setup.

Might make a difference.  

Picasa 3.5 has been working fine for me, with the exception of Geo Tagging.

 It did take a month to face tag my 25000 pics, but didn't seem to slow anything down while doing it.

We really do need a native linux version

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[Patrick Shanahan]

* promeneur <episteme...@free.fr> [12-14-09 12:32]:

> see there
>
> http://wiki.winehq.org/picasa
>
> chapter "Windows version"
>

Thankyou, the wiki examples and massaging of the wine install have
allowed me to install and use the windoz version of picasa 3.6 on 11.2
openSUSE x86_64 with wine 1.1.34 i586

[Warpitaly]

I did follow the instructions, but the installer still hangs on a
"PicasaUpdater_randomnumber.exe"...

any hint?

[Gino]

Ok Warpitaly... this is what I did... I had exactly same problem as
you.

1 - install 3.0beta for linux (.deb downloaded from web)
2 - used the wine binaries included at this installation.... so:

cd /opt/google/picasa/3.0/wine/bin
./wine /home/feanor/Software/picasa36-setup.exe
(the ./wine is quite important)

3 - this installs at /home/feanor/.wine/drive_c but this is not our
objetive... so

su - (became root)
cd /opt/google/picasa/3.0/wine/drive_c/Program Files/Google
rm -Rf Picasa*
cp -Rf /home/feanor/.wine/drive_c/Archivos\ de\ programa/Google/
Picasa3/ ./
cd Picasa3/
mv PicasaUpdater.exe PicasaUpdater.exe.old

OK.... now, I can use the links to start Picasa configured by the
original .deb installer, and the version is 3.6....

It seems to be good.

NOTE: I used imagination, because the wiki did not solve my problem
and coulnt install 3.6 with wine because of picasaupdater.exe
problem....

Good luck.

I used Ubuntu Karmic.

[software]

Hi thanx for all the help, I found this solution worked for me.

This is a slight twist on Gino's post, he deserves all the credit :)

1 - install 3.0beta for linux (.deb downloaded from web)
2 - used the wine binaries included at this installation.... so:
cd /opt/google/picasa/3.0/wine/bin

./wine /home/<YOU>/Software/picasa36-setup.exe - use default install
location

3 - this installs at /home/<YOU>/.wine/drive_c but this is not our

objetive... so
su - (became root)

cd /opt/google/picasa/3.0/wine/drive_c/Program\ Files\/Google
rm -Rf Picasa*
cd /opt/google/picasa/3.0/wine/bin
./wine /home/feanor/Software/picasa36-setup.exe - this time change
install location to
Z:\opt\google\picasa\3.0\wine\drive_c\Program Files\Google\Picasa3

Cheers,
Andrew