install picasa and google earth, easiest way

[gychang]

Just installed the Fedora 10, impressive distro.

Is there an easy way to install (like to avoid terminal screen) the 2 programs with software package ?

thanks,


gychang

[Hlingler]

Picasa: Yes. Google-Earth: No. Or rather: Maybe - see the "Guides and How-Tos" forum and look for the automatic goody scripts: EasyLife or AutoTen.

Google has a YUM repo with Picasso in RPM format:
http://www.google.com/linuxrepositories/index.html
http://www.google.com/linuxrepositories/rpm.html
http://www.google.com/linuxrepositories/yum.html

V

EDIT: AutoTen has both: http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=171660
Easy....

[leigh123linux]

Originally Posted by Hlingler

Picasso: Yes. Google-Earth: No. Or rather: Maybe - see the "Guides and How-Tos" forum and look for the automatic goody scripts: EasyLife or AutoTen.

Google has a YUM repo with Picasso in RPM format:
http://www.google.com/linuxrepositories/index.html
http://www.google.com/linuxrepositories/rpm.html
http://www.google.com/linuxrepositories/yum.html

V

I packaged google earth ! it's included in AutoTen .


P.S my google earth rpm is GPL

[Hlingler]

Ask, and Leigh shall package it! Couldn't be easier....

Thanks,
V

Learn how to use the Terminal nowand it will save your b*tt in the future!

Wayne

[gychang]

Originally Posted by leigh123@linux

I packaged google earth ! it's included in AutoTen .


P.S my google earth rpm is GPL

thanks very much, makes it super easy.

gychang

[jbkt23]

I already have wine installed. When I use Autoten another copy of wine is created in /opt. Picasa won't start. I've done some research and seen that there may be modifications necessary to /etc/sysctl.conf but I am not convinced that the real issue is the dual wine setups. Any enlightenment would be helpful.

[jbkt23]

This is the error output:
$ /home/dad --> /opt/picasa/wine/drive_c/Program Files/Picasa2
/usr/bin/picasa: line 139: 6477 Segmentation fault "$PIC_BINDIR"/wrapper check_dir.exe.so
/home/dad --> /opt/picasa/wine/drive_c/Program Files/Picasa2
/usr/bin/picasa: line 175: 6605 Segmentation fault "$PIC_BINDIR/wrapper" regedit /E $registry_export HKEY_USERS\\S-1-5-4\\Software\\Google\\Picasa\\Picasa2\\Preferences\ \

[jbkt23]

I still am not able to get Picasa to run as a regular user. I found another post here that described the symptoms I have and a solution, but my application of the solution has not worked so let me explain what I've done here.
I first installed Picasa by following the instructions from the google site, created a google.repo file and enabling it. I then did a yum install picasa. Following the install I was unable to get Picasa to work with the error documented in the above post. I added the vm.mmap... line in /etc/sysctl.conf but that did not have an effect.
I then did a yum remove picasa, and then used autoten to install it. I did not remove the google.repo from /etc/yumrepos.d that I created earlier. Should I have?
When I attempt to start picasa as a regular user I now get a short bit of output and then nothing:
$ picasa
/home/dad --> /opt/picasa/wine/drive_c/Program Files/Picasa2
/home/dad --> /opt/picasa/wine/drive_c/Program Files/Picasa2
The .picasa directory is created each time I attempt to start it, I 'rm -fr .picasa' between each attempt.
When I start picasa as root it does startup and create a .picasa in roots home directory, with the additional configuration settings under the path '/dosdevice_c/documents and settings/app/...'
So this seems to indicate that when wine executes it is not getting full permission to write to the users directory.
I am going to remove picasa again and delete the google.repo and try again.
Any insight would be appreciated.

There's an RPM of the latest beta here, works fine for me, just download it and install it from a Terminal:

rpm -ivh *.rpm

http://picasa.google.com/linux/download.html#picasa30

Wayne

[jbkt23]

Wayne Thanks,
problem solved. The real issue was exposed when I went to the trouble of installing version 3.0. After setting up the google testing repo and running yum to install version 3, additional dependencies were added in the process. They are:
Dependency Installed:
audit-libs.i386 0:1.7.11-2.fc10 cracklib.i386 0:2.8.12-2
libxslt.i386 0:1.1.24-2.fc10 pam.i386 0:1.0.2-2.fc10
qt3.i386 0:3.3.8b-17.fc10 redhat-lsb.i386 0:3.2-2.fc10

which were some how missed when installing the 2.7 version. I'm on an 64 bit machine so picasa needs the i386 version of these packages. So if anyone is trying to get the 2.7 version running you need to yum install the above i386 rpm's.

[Larry Firth]

Hi what I did was download googleEarthLinux.bin to desktop . then opened a terminal windows. then this seems to be the most important part . I dragged the file into the terminal windows then applied sh command at begining of file . I noticed that when I dragged the file it had ' at the begining and end '

It would not install before this

[julian5]

Easiest way is to install picasa and google maps is by using wine.

--Julian

Google Earth is native so doesn't need wine and Picasa has its own custom version of wine so a separate version is not required at all.

Wayne

[sej7278]

anyone else getting 404's all over http://dl.google.com/linux/ ?

their yum repo doesn't exist it seems.