Install Picasa 3.0 Beta On Ubuntu 8.10

To Install Picasa 3.0 On Ubuntu, follow step by step.

For Specific Improvement

* User data are now stored in ~/.google/picasa/.

* Camera/media detection integrated with Gnome/KDE.

* Mozilla/Firefox browser integration done via a plugin.

* picasa:// urls work in Firefox 3.

* Downloading albums from Picasa Web Albums launches faster.

* Better Xinerama support.

Remove existing Picasa

If you are using stable version you have to remove using the following command
sudo apt-get remove picasa

Install Picasa 3.0 beta in ubuntu

Import the google key using the following command

sudo wget -q -O - https://dl-ssl.google.com/linux/linux_signing_key.pub | apt-key add -

sudo apt-get update

Edit the

/etc/apt/sources.list file

gedit /etc/apt/sources.list

add the following line

# Google testing repository
deb http://dl.google.com/linux/deb/ testing non-free

save and exit the file.

Update the source list file using the following command
sudo apt-get update

Install picasa using the following command

sudo apt-get install picasa








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