Picasa works on amd 64 as well!!!

Posted on May 29, 2006 by ikd

A big, huge, monumental, thank you to the wonderful people at google who made picasa work for linux, too. I have been experimenting with picasa on my ubuntu box since yesterday. This morning, I am happy to say that Picasa works on my AMD64 box.

Here is how I did it: 1) I downloaded the self-extracting installer which says that it is for any x86 installation.

2) After the necessary chmod 755 *.bin (sorry, I never learnt the chmod a+x stuff), you simply execute the installer and it asks if it is ok to install picasa in the directory /opt/picasa. That’s fine with me.

Voila, picasa for amd64, too.

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Update!!! Google has already made available rpm and deb files for both x32 and x64 platforms, so the above tricks is no longer necessary!!!

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8 Responses

  1. Gabriel Pollard, on June 3rd, 2007 at 1:43 pm Said:

    Can you please provide me with further instructions on how to install Picasa onto my 64 bit Ubuntu. I am a fairly new user.

  2. sindhu, on June 27th, 2007 at 5:04 am Said:

    wonderful! :) love your blog, thank you so much for putting this post up! :D

  3. sindhu, on June 27th, 2007 at 5:05 am Said:

    and am ur new feed reader too ;)

  4. ikd, on June 28th, 2007 at 10:53 am Said:

    @sindhu
    Thanks for the kind words. Please keep reading.

    I.

  5. h2g2, on November 5th, 2007 at 10:11 pm Said:

    Great. Thanks for posting this!!

  6. ikd, on November 5th, 2007 at 11:43 pm Said:

    @h2g2
    thanks for the comment. I have to update the posting re:picasa and add probably more information on the many options available for online posting and editing and sharing photos etc.

    ikd

  7. STRANGER, on February 17th, 2009 at 10:43 pm Said:

    what the fuck is wrong with you people none of the above instructions tell you how to get picasa for linux 64. How many times to i have to click through thses fucking blog things?

  8. ikd, on February 18th, 2009 at 10:50 am Said:

    temper, temper. The instructions, written in 2006, when the versions of picasa for linux were limited are still valid today. Moreover, google has several different versions of picasa available based on your architecture of choice amd64, 32-bit, rpm-based distro, deb-based distro, you name it. Simply download the one you like and follow the instructions.

    I.

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