How To Install Picasa Advanced Picture Manager In Ubuntu

Picasa is more than a picture manager actually. It has been there for a long time now. Although before telling you how to install it in GNU Linux, may I suggest another totally/truly free image organizer called Shotwell. Anything that Picasa can do, can be achieved using Shotwell as well. But still if you're interested in Picasa, then read on.

Main Features...

*. Web album management - You can easily view and upload images to online image uploading sites.

*. Edit, Zoom ... change brightness, Crop pictures, etc (Picasa seems to give slightly better zoomed pictures as well).

*. Organize pictures in your HDD.

*. Easily create video picture albums.

*. Tag photos with places.

*. Printing support.

*. Enhance pictures.

*. Share your photos with friends over the web with ease...

So to install Picasa in Ubuntu, open your terminal and issue the below commands.

wget http://dl.google.com/linux/deb/pool/non-free/p/picasa/picasa_3.0-current_i386.deb

Now follow with this command.

sudo dpkg -i picasa_3.0-current_i386.deb

Once the installing is complete, you should be able to run it via "Applications" -> "Graphics" -> "Picasa".