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

Fri Dec 17 11:51:49 UTC 2010
Lanny Marcus <lmmailinglists at gmail.com>

On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 9:47 AM, 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.
>
> Reinstalling:
>  picasa           i386           2.7.3736-15             google
<snip>
On http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Labs-Picasa-for-Linux it
looks like this is a general problem, so possibly uninstalling the
Picasa I got from the Google Repository and then installing Wine and
then installing the latest version of Picasa for M$ Windows is the way
to go.

On http://picasa.google.com/linux/faq.html#6 they show you can launch
Picasa, with the below command, but no joy with that on my box:

[lanny at dell1602 ~]$ /opt/picasa/bin/picasa
/opt/picasa/bin/picasa: line 139:  4833 Segmentation fault
"$PIC_BINDIR"/wrapper check_dir.exe.so
/opt/picasa/bin/picasa: line 175:  4928 Segmentation fault
"$PIC_BINDIR/wrapper" regedit /E $registry_export
HKEY_USERS\\S-1-5-4\\Software\\Google\\Picasa\\Picasa2\\Preferences\\
[lanny at dell1602 ~]$