****To install Picasa 3.9****

1) Install [[http://apt.ubuntu.com/p/wine|wine]] and [[http://apt.ubuntu.com/p/winetricks|winetricks]]:\\ "sudo apt-get install wine winetricks"

2) Download [[http://dl.google.com/picasa/picasa39-setup.exe|Picasa 3.9]] from google:\\ "cd ~/ && wget http://dl.google.com/picasa/picasa39-setup.exe"

3) Install Picasa with wine:

  "wine ~/picasa39-setup.exe  "

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****To fix login****

Now you have Picasa 3.9 installed but there is a problem if you want to login to Google to upload some pictures, so to fix it do this:

4) Install Internet Explorer 6:\\ "env WINEARCH=win32 WINEPREFIX=~/.tmp winetricks ie6"

You will have to click "Next" and "Accept" in a few windows:

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5) Copy the installation into wine folder:\\ "cp -r ~/.tmp/* ~/.wine/"

6) Done! Now just open Picasa as any other program:

Open Dash and search for Picasa. Click at the top right corner to login:

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****Notes:****\\ I) With this method each user will have to run the steps 2 to 5 to get Picasa fully working into his/her user folder. Or ask for he/she to run this once at terminal:

  " ""cd ~/ && wget http://dl.google.com/picasa/picasa39-setup.exe && wine ~/picasa39-setup.exe && env WINEARCH=win32 WINEPREFIX=~/.tmp winetricks ie6 && cp -r ~/.tmp/* ~/.wine/    "

II) If you are feeling lazy, just paste this at terminal and all the steps above will be done for you (as a user specific installation):

  " ""sudo apt-get install wine winetricks && cd ~/ && wget http://dl.google.com/picasa/picasa39-setup.exe && wine ~/picasa39-setup.exe && env WINEARCH=win32 WINEPREFIX=~/.tmp winetricks ie6 && cp -r ~/.tmp/* ~/.wine/  "

III) After the step 5, the file "picasa39-setup.exe" can be deleted:\\ "rm ~/picasa39-setup.exe"

And also the folder "~/.tmp":\\ "rm ~/.tmp"

IV) To uninstall everything:

  "sudo apt-get remove --purge wine ; sudo apt-get remove --purge winetricks ; sudo apt-get autoremove ; sudo rm /usr/share/applications/Picasa3.desktop ; rm ~/picasa39-setup.exe ; rm -r ~/.tmp ; rm -r ~/.wine ; rm -r ~/.local/share/applications/wine* ; sed -i '/wine/d' ~/.local/share/applications/mimeinfo.cache"

V) I have made two scripts (see it: [[http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4098082/picasa/check|check]] and [[http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4098082/picasa/installp|installp]]) that can check if Picasa is installed and install it if needed with the IE6 to fix the login. The following command will download it from my dropbox with a beautiful icon from [[http://qyasogk.deviantart.com/|qyasogk]] at [[http://www.deviantart.com/|Deviantart]]. After running this command, just search for "Picasa" at Dash, if needed, the install will begin, if don't needed, Picasa will run.

  "sudo apt-get install wine winetricks ; cd ~/ ; wget -c http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4098082/picasa/check ; wget -c http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4098082/picasa/installp ; wget -c http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4098082/picasa/Picasa-icon.png ; wget -c http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4098082/picasa/Picasa3.desktop ; sudo mkdir /opt/picasa ; sudo mv ~/check /opt/picasa/ ; sudo mv ~/installp /opt/picasa/ ; sudo mv ~/Picasa-icon.png /opt/picasa/ ; sudo mv ~/Picasa3.desktop /usr/share/applications/ ; sudo chmod 777 /opt/picasa/check ; sudo chmod 777 /opt/picasa/installp"

To remove it:

  "sudo rm -r /opt/picasa ; sudo rm /usr/share/applications/Picasa3.desktop ; rm ~/.firstpicasaru"

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If you use Picasa 3.9, you will not be able to connect to your Google account. [[http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Picasa/thread?tid=1c3f770cc876aeb9&fid=1c3f770cc876aeb90004b3eaa15d2dfe&hltp=2|According to Google employee Brian Rose, the authentication mechanism was changed to OAuth using an implementation that is currently not compatible with Wine.]]

There is [[http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=25031|an entry in Wine's AppDB for Picasa 3.9]], and I submitted [[http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29434|a bug report]]. As a workaround, install Internet Explorer 6 using [[http://winetricks.org/|Winetricks]]. You have to use the upstream Winetricks script, since the one packaged in Ubuntu [[http://appdb.winehq.org/appview.php?versionId=469#Comment-71579|has a broken Internet Explorer link]].

  "wget http://winetricks.org/winetricks"
  "chmod +x winetricks"
  "WINEPREFIX=~/.wine ./winetricks ie6"

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Great instructions. Instead of IE6.0 work around for google account login. I tried an application specific password using the following link. Worked for me. The link: [[https://www.google.com/accounts/IssuedAuthSubTokens|google.com/accounts/IssuedAuthSubTokens]] – user41528 [[http://askubuntu.com/questions/86452/how-would-i-install-picasa-3-9#comment163687_87756|Jan 11 '12 at 18:50]]