CentOS - Dec 2010 - {SOLVED} Re: Google Picasa / GNOME / how to launch application?

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.
>
Dejan: Thank you. That's the easiest way!  I uninstalled the version
of Picasa for Linux I'd gotten from the google yum repository,
installed wine and then I downloaded the M$ Windows version (3.8) of
Google's Picasa and installed that with Wine.

Working!   :-)  Strangely, in the Help > About  it shows that it is
Picasa version 3.8.x for Linux.    :-)

Thanks to the 3 of you who replied.  Much appreciated! Lanny

On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 6:58 AM, Lanny Marcus <lmmailinglists at
gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 11:41 PM, Dejan <centos at bektchiev.net>
wrote:
>> 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.
>>
> Dejan: Thank you. That's the easiest way! ?I uninstalled the version
> of Picasa for Linux I'd gotten from the google yum repository,
> installed wine and then I downloaded the M$ Windows version (3.8) of
> Google's Picasa and installed that with Wine.
>
> Working! ? :-) ?Strangely, in the Help > About ?it shows that it is
> Picasa version 3.8.x for Linux. ? ?:-)
>
> Thanks to the 3 of you who replied. ?Much appreciated! Lanny
I'm just running Piscasa as an app under the Chromium Web Broser. Also
running Picnik the same way. They work well together.

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RonB -- Using CentOS 5.5