Picasa for Linux has gone

[OpenCage]

http://picasa.google.com/linux/ shows 404 error.

[Patrick Shanahan]

* OpenCage <open...@gmail.com> [04-02-12 17:15]:

> http://picasa.google.com/linux/ shows 404 error.

No big thing. The last version of picasa "designated" for linux was 3.0
which is very outdated and the "designation" amounted to a windows version
packaged with a wine environment.

You can accomplish the same effect by downloading the windows version and
installing it via wine or winetricks. I have done it both ways.

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[mhenriday]

Den måndagen den 2:e april 2012 kl. 23:13:41 UTC+2 skrev OpenCage:

http://picasa.google.com/linux/ shows 404 error.

 

OpenCage, in the event you desire a bit more information than Patrick provides in his comment above, you will find this Web Upd8 article of interest....

Henri

[OpenCage]

Thank you, Patrick and Henri.

I know using wine and tried many times. But I did it, fonts of side panel become invisible.

I tried below method, finally I can see side panel fonts surely.

http://www.webupd8.org/2010/04/how-to-install-picasa-36-in-ubuntu.html

 I have no idea using picasa completely without overwriting "Picasa for Linux" with latest Picasa for Windows.

[Patrick Shanahan]

* OpenCage <open...@gmail.com> [04-03-12 11:47]:

>
> I have no idea using picasa completely without overwriting "Picasa for
> Linux" with latest Picasa for Windows.
>

Previously here, there was information on adding/substituting the newer
picasa binaries for the 3.0 version. But I didn't save it, you'll need to
search the archives. I also did not try it as I am able to use and see
completely the install via wine/winetricks.

Did you try installing via winetricks rather than wine? With winetricks
you can install a completely separate environment from other installs.

[OpenCage]

On Wednesday, April 4, 2012 5:44:13 AM UTC+9, ptilo...@gmail.com wrote:

Did you try installing via winetricks rather than wine?  With winetricks
you can install a completely separate environment from other installs.

Thank you Patrick. I will try it. (•‿•)

[leiz]

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2012/04/spring-cleaning-in-spring.html
says:

"We launched a WINE-based version of Picasa for Linux in 2006 as a
Google Labs project. As we continue to enhance Picasa, it has become
difficult to maintain parity on the Linux version. So today, we’re
deprecating Picasa for Linux and will not be maintaining it moving
forward. Users who have downloaded and installed older versions of
Picasa for Linux can continue to use them, though we won’t be making
any further updates."

Also:

"Starting today, the Picasa Web Albums Uploader for Mac and Picasa Web
Albums Plugin for iPhoto will no longer be available for download.
People can continue to use the uploader and plugin if they are
installed. However, we’ll no longer maintain these tools. We strongly
encourage people to download Picasa 3.9 for Mac, which includes upload
and iPhoto import features."

On Apr 2, 2:13 pm, OpenCage <openca...@gmail.com> wrote:
> http://picasa.google.com/linux/shows 404 error.

[Patrick Shanahan]

* leiz <zhan...@gmail.com> [04-20-12 15:52]:

> http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2012/04/spring-cleaning-in-spring.html
> says:
>
> "We launched a WINE-based version of Picasa for Linux in 2006 as a
> Google Labs project. As we continue to enhance Picasa, it has become
> difficult to maintain parity on the Linux version. So today, we’re
> deprecating Picasa for Linux and will not be maintaining it moving
> forward. Users who have downloaded and installed older versions of
> Picasa for Linux can continue to use them, though we won’t be making
> any further updates."
>
> Also:
>
> "Starting today, the Picasa Web Albums Uploader for Mac and Picasa Web
> Albums Plugin for iPhoto will no longer be available for download.
> People can continue to use the uploader and plugin if they are
> installed. However, we’ll no longer maintain these tools. We strongly
> encourage people to download Picasa 3.9 for Mac, which includes upload
> and iPhoto import features."

It is not a problem as such. Picasa 3.9 for windoz is readily and easily
installable in linux via wine. This forum contains instructions.

[Stephen]

Surprised they haven't closed this list down -- Probably have forgotten all about it. LOL

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[mhenriday]

«As we continue to enhance Picasa, it has become difficult to maintain parity on the Linux version.» Which, of course, is to be translated as follows «Some beancounter estimated that it might cost a few extra pennies to update, so we, in our poverty and great need, felt constrained to quite. Thank you and good night and God Bless whatever....»

Oh well, by this time most of us do know how to install and run the latest Picasa versions for Windows via Wine and those who don't can always seek help here - id est, until this group also becomes «deprecated», as the phrase goes....

Henri

[Garthhh]

Nice of them to bother to tell us oh a month after the fact

being wine phobic

I've moved to digikam, which has reasonably good integration with G+

the facial recognition & geotagging stuff is there, I don't use them so I have know idea if it works

this group has no official affiliation with Google, so will continue as long as it's active

[Stephen]

You're afraid of WINE but chose to install all the KDE Libs just to use digikam? Those binaries are far more larger than WINE. OK if you're already using KDE but not if one isn't.

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[txherper]

I can't connect and update my pictures using 3.9. I have to
reinstall 3.8 everytime time I use it. After being installed it
"upgrades". I love editing with Picasa, I am not photoshopping, just
cropping, straightening, etc. As I have hundreds of albums I have no
interest in switching. People from all over the world look at my
travel pictures through google+. Too bad linux users are being
abandoned. It doesn't seem as though the incremental effort to
support linux would be that high. It's free, I have no right to
bitch, but really, google...


On Apr 20, 3:02 pm, Patrick Shanahan <ptilopt...@gmail.com> wrote:
> * leiz <zhang...@gmail.com> [04-20-12 15:52]:

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[Patrick Shanahan]

* txherper <txhe...@gmail.com> [04-22-12 23:06]:

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But you *can* connect, but you *must* follow the installation
instructions. Most require installing ie6, iirc.

AND I believe that shotwell and maybe digikam are able to update your
albums to google+/picasa-web-albums.

I probably should quit here. Any more I rarely use picasa other than
testing to see it still works (on upgrades). And I get enough traffick on
my home box server that I have *few* photos uploaded to google+ and/or
picasa-web. Easier to support my own server/web albums.

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[Stephen]

Yes they can as well as GThumb too. Actually the others mentioned, can upload to other services as well, so they're far more preferable in my opinion than a hacked install of Pi casa.

On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 12:11 AM, Patrick Shanahan <ptilo...@gmail.com> wrote:

AND I believe that shotwell and maybe digikam are able to update your
albums to google+/picasa-web-albums.

[Garthhh]

Oh I'm not afraid of wine, just not willing to waste my time, never had any thing work with wine [yes I know picasa always used an emulator] for an extended period of time

yes I'm using KDE, I need the workspace behavior

moved from ubun to Mageia

after a few bumps from not being familiar with kde [been using gnome]

the package is more complete, there is a price in performance ...

just like everything these days, incomplete documentation :D

On Saturday, April 21, 2012 10:01:41 AM UTC-7, Stephen Allen wrote:

You're afraid of WINE but chose to install all the KDE Libs just to use digikam? Those binaries are far more larger than WINE. OK if you're already using KDE but not if one isn't.

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[Jim]

This whole tread is entertaining, especially if you take into
consideration that Google is a Linux only shop!

Funny that Google is not supporting the system they use exclusively.
Wonder if they will bring it out for Android.

On Apr 23, 10:19 pm, Garthhh <gchoy...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Oh I'm not afraid of wine, just not willing to waste my time, never had any
> thing work with wine [yes I know picasa always used an emulator] for an
> extended period of time
> yes I'm using KDE, I need the workspace behavior
> moved from ubun to Mageia
> after a few bumps from not being familiar with kde [been using gnome]
> the package is more complete, there is a price in performance ...
> just like everything these days, incomplete documentation :D
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> On Saturday, April 21, 2012 10:01:41 AM UTC-7, Stephen Allen wrote:
>
> > You're afraid of WINE but chose to install all the KDE Libs just to use
> > digikam? Those binaries are far more larger than WINE. OK if you're already
> > using KDE but not if one isn't.
>
> > On Sat, Apr 21, 2012 at 11:23 AM, Garthhh  wrote:
>
> >> Nice of them to bother to tell us oh a month after the fact
> >> being wine phobic
> >> I've moved to digikam, which has reasonably good integration with G+
> >> the facial recognition & geotagging stuff is there, I don't use them so I
> >> have know idea if it works
> >> this group has no official affiliation with Google, so will continue as
> >> long as it's active
>
> >> On Saturday, April 21, 2012 7:29:23 AM UTC-7, mhenriday wrote:
>
> >>> Den fredagen den 20:e april 2012 kl. 21:50:56 UTC+2 skrev leiz:
>

> >>>>http://googleblog.blogspot.**com/2012/04/spring-cleaning-**
> >>>> in-spring.html<http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2012/04/spring-cleaning-in-spring.html>

> >>>> says:
>
> >>>> "We launched a WINE-based version of Picasa for Linux in 2006 as a
> >>>> Google Labs project. As we continue to enhance Picasa, it has become
> >>>> difficult to maintain parity on the Linux version. So today, we’re
> >>>> deprecating Picasa for Linux and will not be maintaining it moving
> >>>> forward. Users who have downloaded and installed older versions of
> >>>> Picasa for Linux can continue to use them, though we won’t be making
> >>>> any further updates."
>
> >>>> Also:
>
> >>>> "Starting today, the Picasa Web Albums Uploader for Mac and Picasa Web
> >>>> Albums Plugin for iPhoto will no longer be available for download.
> >>>> People can continue to use the uploader and plugin if they are
> >>>> installed. However, we’ll no longer maintain these tools. We strongly
> >>>> encourage people to download Picasa 3.9 for Mac, which includes upload
> >>>> and iPhoto import features."
>
> >>>> On Apr 2, 2:13 pm, OpenCage <openca...@gmail.com> wrote:

> >>>> >http://picasa.google.com/**linux/shows<http://picasa.google.com/linux/shows>404 error.

>
> >>> «As we continue to enhance Picasa, it has become difficult to maintain
> >>> parity on the Linux version.» Which, of course, is to be translated as
> >>> follows «Some beancounter estimated that it might cost a few extra pennies
> >>> to update, so we, in our poverty and great need, felt constrained to quite.
> >>> Thank you and good night and God Bless whatever....»
>
> >>> Oh well, by this time most of us do know how to install and run the
> >>> latest Picasa versions for Windows via Wine and those who don't can always

> >>> seek help here - *id est*, until this group also becomes «deprecated»,

> >>> as the phrase goes....
>
> >>> Henri
>
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[mhenriday]

Den måndagen den 11:e juni 2012 kl. 18:54:05 UTC+2 skrev Jim:

This whole tread is entertaining, especially if you take into
consideration that Google is a Linux only shop!

Funny that Google is not supporting the system they use exclusively.
Wonder if they will bring it out for Android.

Not particularly surprising, Jim - Google is, after all, a commercial shop and after a period of testing, when developers to a high degree seem to be allowed to follow their own interests, efforts are concentrated on platforms where the expected return on investment is the highest. «Gratitude» to GNU/Linux and developers doesn't seem to play a part here. But given the popularity of Android, as you intimate, a version of Picasa for Anroid might just be within the realm of possibility. Myself, I'd far prefer to do my photo editing on a desktop, but there may be a market for editing on high-end tablets. It would be ironic if we Linux users were to gain access to a «native» version via an Android backdoor !...

Henri 
 

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[marvo]

> > Wonder if they will bring it out for Android.

> But given the popularity of Android, as you intimate, a version of Picasa
> for Anroid might just be within the realm of possibility. Myself, I'd far
> prefer to do my photo editing on a desktop,

Maybe the solution is to use Android on the desktop ;-)

http://www.android-x86.org/

Microsoft tries to transplant a smartphone GUI into its desktop
operating system, too.

[Jim]

I do my editing on the desktop as well, mostly GIMP.

I run tech for a school district in the states and I have converted about 98% of the student machines over to Ubuntu.  I had a special request to put Picasa on the machines for a summer program which is when I found out it is not made for Linux anymore.

I think that Google should push it's Linux connection more.  If you look at a global trend there seems to be a big shift towards Linux in the last 5 years and I think it will pick up speed over the next several.  Take a look at 50 Places Linux is Running That You Might Not Expect.  Google could put a dent in MS if they really get going.

Since most of Google's revenue is from advertisers anyway, they would not really lose anything by putting out a Linux version and they would pick up some of the growing number of Linux users.

Probably a bit off topic by now!

[Jim]

Saw this about a day ago, should be interesting.

[Patrick Shanahan]

* Jim <zee...@gmail.com> [06-13-12 16:10]:

> I do my editing on the desktop as well, mostly GIMP.
>
> I run tech for a school district in the states and I have converted about
> 98% of the student machines over to Ubuntu. I had a special request to put
> Picasa on the machines for a summer program which is when I found out it is
> not made for Linux anymore.

I have good news for you, picasa has *never* been "made for linux". I was
merely a windows exe packaged with a tweaked version of wine.

It is no big problem installing the current windows version of picasa in
linux via wine and has been documented quite well here and other places.

> I think that Google should push it's Linux connection more. If you look
> at a global trend there seems to be a big shift towards Linux in the
> last 5 years and I think it will pick up speed over the next several.
> Take a look at 50 Places Linux is Running That You Might Not

> Expect<http://www.focus.com/fyi/50-places-linux-running-you-might-not-expect/>.

> Google could put a dent in MS if they really get going.
>
> Since most of Google's revenue is from advertisers anyway, they would not
> really lose anything by putting out a Linux version and they would pick up
> some of the growing number of Linux users.
>
> Probably a bit off topic by now!

Google doesn't want to "dent" windows. They want *revenue* from windows
and will support it as well as they can.

[bashley101]

On 06/13/2012 12:52 PM, Jim wrote:
> I do my editing on the desktop as well, mostly GIMP.

I do most of my editing with picasa. I only use gimp if I REALLY want
to fix the perspective, which happens once every few months.

> I run tech for a school district in the states and I have converted
> about 98% of the student machines over to Ubuntu. I had a special
> request to put Picasa on the machines for a summer program which is when
> I found out it is not made for Linux anymore.

I'm still using 3.0, which comes with its own version of wine. I see no
reason to uae a newer version which will require me to -- presumably --
install a newer version of wine. I've seen no features in later
versions that are worth the stress of upgrading something that might in
turn break something I don't want broken.

If it ain't broke, don't fix it.

It's fairly clear that linux users are not considered a market worth
pursuing, so we might as well enjoy what we already have.

[Patrick Shanahan]

* bashley101 <bashl...@gmail.com> [06-13-12 17:40]:

> On 06/13/2012 12:52 PM, Jim wrote:
> >I do my editing on the desktop as well, mostly GIMP.
>
> I do most of my editing with picasa. I only use gimp if I REALLY want to
> fix the perspective, which happens once every few months.
>
> >I run tech for a school district in the states and I have converted
> >about 98% of the student machines over to Ubuntu. I had a special
> >request to put Picasa on the machines for a summer program which is when
> >I found out it is not made for Linux anymore.
>
> I'm still using 3.0, which comes with its own version of wine. I see no
> reason to uae a newer version which will require me to -- presumably --
> install a newer version of wine. I've seen no features in later versions
> that are worth the stress of upgrading something that might in turn break
> something I don't want broken.
>
> If it ain't broke, don't fix it.

I am running "Picasa Version 3.9.0 (Build 135.7800,0) for Linux." Which
is really just picasa39-setup.exe installed via wine. It works quite well
and things work that didn't in previous version. It also has more editing
capabilities, facial recognition, ...

But you use what you choose, manual shift, tube-type tires, dimmer button
on the floor, ....

[bashley101]

On 06/13/2012 02:53 PM, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
>
> But you use what you choose, manual shift, tube-type tires, dimmer button
> on the floor, ....

And there's nothing really wrong with any of those, is there? In fact,
I liked the manual shift on my Sentra better than the auto on my
Eldorado (no, I didn't buy it, I inherited it). I would INFINITELY
prefer manual windows, seats, mirrors, etc.

But this has nothing to do with picasa, has it?

[Fox7799]

It makes no sense for Google to not support Linux since Linux is currently making such great advances in the marketplace and will be making much more in the future. I have a hard time installing Picasa on Bodhi Linux but I still do because the software works good.

[mhenriday]

In the event that non-mobile versions of GNU/Linux do begin to capture significant market share (a consumation devoutly to be wished), then it strikes me as likely that Google would be willing to devote resources to developing native versions of Picasa and other such applications for the OS(s). But until such time, I fear we shall have to look in the stars....

Henri

[Fox7799]

I still use native Picasa 3 on my Bodhi Linux 2.2.0. Works good for me.- Joel

[Fox7799]

Picasa 3 on Bodhi Linux 2.2.0 started malfunctioning so I was temporarily using it on Bodhi 1.4.0 on another partition and then copying the album to Bodhi 2.2.0 but that was a hassle. Now I have found that the new Digikam, http://digikam.org , is really improved and does everything Picasa used to do plus adds music to slide shows, etc. Digikam can upload to Picasa web and many other services. It is the new Picasa for Linux.

[Dan Christensen]

Fox7799 <fox...@gmail.com> writes:

> I have found that the new Digikam, http://digikam.org , is really
> improved and does everything Picasa used to do plus adds music to
> slide shows, etc. Digikam can upload to Picasa web and many other
> services. It is the new Picasa for Linux.

The last time I looked into digikam, its coordination with picasaweb
wasn't nearly as good as picasa's. For example, after uploading photos
to an album, if you later reorder the photos in picasa or edit captions,
it makes the same changes on picasaweb. (And it also makes change in
the other direction, so photo order and captions changed in picasaweb
are also changed in picasa. But this is not as crucial for me.)

Does anyone know if digikam supports this kind of syncing rather than
simply uploading? Are there any other linux applications that do?

Dan

[mhenriday]

Den onsdagen den 6:e mars 2013 kl. 05:44:53 UTC+1 skrev Fox7799:

Picasa 3 on Bodhi Linux 2.2.0 started malfunctioning so I was temporarily using it on Bodhi 1.4.0 on another partition and then copying the album to Bodhi 2.2.0 but that was a hassle. Now I have found that the new Digikam, http://digikam.org , is really improved and does everything Picasa used to do plus adds music to slide shows, etc. Digikam can upload to Picasa web and many other services. It is the new Picasa for Linux.

Thanks for the tip, Fox7799 ; you've inspried me to install Digikam om my 64 bit Ubuntu 12.04 main box. Have to test it and see how it stacks up against Picasa....

Henri