If you want Google’s Picasa on your EEE, here’s how 🙂
1.) Download Google’s automated installer for their repo authentication key:
wget https://dl-ssl.google.com/linux/google-repo-setup.sh
2.) Run the newly-downloaded script:
bash google-repo-setup.sh
3.) Update apt:
sudo apt-get update
4.) Install Picasa:
sudo apt-get install picasa
You can, of course, add Google’s key and repo name by hand, but, this seemed the easier option.
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Thank you so much! This is very helpful.
Incidentally, do you know how to lower the security on the hosts file? I’d love to be able to install Mike’s ad-blocking hosts file — I wasn’t sure html was allowed in the comments field so I put the URL in as my website link — but haven’t been able to figure out how to override the restrictions to edit the file on the Eee.
I would have thought that editing it as root (via sudo) should do the trick. Or do you need to do something else- like make editing it a non-root operation (not a brilliant idea, really :))
If you are looking at blocking ads in FireFox, installing the add-on called “AdBlockPlus” might be easier 🙂
Neil
Thanks for the tips, Neil!
I have followed all the steps but the app won’t start unless I type “sudo -i” first. Any ideas?
Thanks in advance!
This no longer works.
Which bit no longer works?
The program, you can download and install it, but it won’t run.
I just got my eee yesterday… and I am brand new to Linux! I tried all of the steps above, but I am told that the computer can’t find Picasa. Did I do something wrong or miss a step? Do have to download the program from google’s website first? I really want to get Picasa working! Any ideas?