[CentOS] Installing Google's Picasa for Linux on CentOS 5

Tue Nov 6 19:55:14 UTC 2007
Lanny Marcus <lannyma at gmail.com>

On 06 November 2007, Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
<snip>
>Hmmm does the package look good with a
>rpm -K picasa-2.2.2820-5.i386.rpm

Stephen: I downloaded the .rpm file from Google again. This time, I
was logged in as root.
First, I downloaded the file to the Desktop. I double clicked on the
Icon. Supposedly, the installation was successful, according to the
Package Manager. Then, I moved the file to /tmp as Google suggests if
there is a problem, and I tried to install it from a shell. Same
thing. I got the below error. How did you install it? Are you using
SELinux? Do you know if Picasa is available in a Yum repository,
packaged for CentOS5? Since you have it running, I know it can be
done.  TIA, Lanny

[root at dell2400 ~]#  rpm -Uvh /tmp/picasa-2.2.2820-5.i386.rpm
warning: /tmp/picasa-2.2.2820-5.i386.rpm: Header V3 DSA signature:
NOKEY, key ID 7fac5991
Preparing...                ########################################### [100%]
   1:picasa                 ########################################### [100%]
error: unpacking of archive failed on file
/opt/picasa/lib/libfreetype.so;4730c479: cpio: symlink failed -
Operation not permitted
[root at dell2400 ~]#