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

Tue Nov 6 19:04:08 UTC 2007
Stephen John Smoogen <smooge at gmail.com>

On 11/6/07, Lanny Marcus <lannyma at gmail.com> wrote:
> I downloaded the .rpm file from Google and am trying to install
> Picasa for Linux on CentOS 5. I get the below error. Is this because
> I'm using SELinux or because of something else?  I found a small
> Picasa folder in /opt (24 items, 143.7 KB) but it seems to end there.
> Picasa is one of the programs my wife uses on Windows. TIA!
>
> [root at dell2400 lanny]# rpm -Uvh picasa-2.2.2820-5.i386.rpm
> warning: 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;4730b5c2: cpio: symlink failed -
> Operation not permitted
> [root at dell2400 lanny]#

Hmmm does the package look good with a

rpm -K picasa-2.2.2820-5.i386.rpm

I just installed it and it worked for me.. so my guess is that you
have a bad RPM.


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