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

Fri Dec 17 11:49:27 UTC 2010
Lanny Marcus <lmmailinglists at gmail.com>

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