Picasa

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This command is run in the standard Linux environment via the Terminal Activity. The GUI will probably not integrate comfortably with the XO Laptop's Sugar environment. Your user experience may vary considerably depending on the established environment and the other programs running on the laptop, may need re-installation after an OS Update. See the Linux software category for other commands.

Description

Google's image manipulation and catalogue program, Picasa 2.7 Beta for Linux, from http://picasa.google.com/linux .

Installation

$ wget http://dl.google.com/linux/rpm/testing/i386/picasa-2.7.3736-7.i386.rpm

$ sudo yum install ./picasa-2.7.3736-7.i386.rpm

=============================================================================
 Package                 Arch       Version          Repository        Size 
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Installing:
 picasa                  i386       2.7.3736-7       ./picasa-2.7.3736-7.i386.rpm   82 M
Installing for dependencies:
 gphoto2                 i386       2.3.1-5.fc7      olpc_koji-update1  1.4 M
 hpijs                   i386       1:1.7.4a-6.fc7   olpc_koji-update1  293 k
 libexif                 i386       0.6.15-3.fc7     olpc_koji-update1  231 k
 libieee1284             i386       0.2.11-1.fc7     olpc_koji-update1   33 k
 libsane-hpaio           i386       1.7.4a-6.fc7     olpc_koji-update1   64 k
 lockdev                 i386       1.0.1-11.fc7     olpc_koji-update1   15 k
 net-snmp-libs           i386       1:5.4-16.fc7     olpc_koji-update1  1.1 M
 sane-backends           i386       1.0.18-15.fc7    olpc_koji-update1  1.0 M
 sane-backends-libs      i386       1.0.18-15.fc7    olpc_koji-update1  2.3 M

Transaction Summary
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Install     10 Package(s)         
Update       0 Package(s)         
Remove       0 Package(s)         

Total download size: 89 MB

Note:
* Some packages don't have a proper pgp key, so you may need to skip pgp.
  $ yum --nogpgcheck

To Run

$ picasa

Note:

• Picasa (for linux) is actually the MS-Windows version, packaged with wine.
• Wine 0.9.20 is included with Picasa (for Linux), allows to run Microsoft Windows programs.
• Under Sugar GUI, Picasa may open a dialog window which is not visible in Sugar. Alt-Tab to active this dialog box.
• Load times are 5 to 10 minutes, wait until 'splash box' goes away.
• Under Sugar GUI, you can do other Activities while loading, Alt-Tab to switch Activities.