[CentOS] Google Picasa / GNOME / how to launch application?

B.J. McClure keepertoad at bellsouth.net
Fri Dec 17 12:04:42 UTC 2010


On Fri, 2010-12-17 at 06:49 -0500, Lanny Marcus wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 6:08 AM, B.J. McClure <keepertoad at bellsouth.net> wrote:
> > On Fri, 2010-12-17 at 06:02 -0500, Lanny Marcus wrote:
> > On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 11:41 PM, Dejan <centos at bektchiev.net> wrote:
> > > On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 06:47, Lanny Marcus <lmmailinglists at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >> I had installed Picasa,apparently properly, but am unable to launch
> > >> the application. In the GNOME Desktop menu, Applications > Graphics >
> > >> Picasa > Picasa it does not launch. Reinstalled it and the same issue.
> >  <snip>
> > > I had a similar issue with Picasa on my Fedora 14 laptop. The solution
> > > was to download the latest Picasa version for Windows and run it under
> > > Wine.
> >
> > Fwiw, I am running Picasa 3 beta on two CentOS 5.5 32 bit machines without known issue.  Ymmv.
> 
> B.J. I installed with yum from the google repository. Yum said it's
> the latest version, but obviously it's not, if you are on 3.x... Lanny
> 
> Reinstalling:
>  picasa           i386           2.7.3736-15             google

Here is the version:

[bmcclure at house ~]$ rpm -q picasa
picasa-3.0.5744-02

B.J.

Fri Dec 17 07:03:37 EST 2010, CentOS 5.5, Linux 2.6.18-194.26.1.el5
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