Picasa installs but is missing in the menu

Posted by Swapnil Narendra on Ask Ubuntu See other posts from Ask Ubuntu or by Swapnil Narendra
Published on 2011-03-06T21:19:43Z Indexed on 2011/03/07 0:18 UTC
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  • Acer Aspire One Netbook Running Ubuntu Netbook Remix 10.10 (freshly installed) 1 GB Ram 150 GM HDD Space

I am trying to install Picasa and when I do, it runs its course telling me that it has been installed. But when I try to look for Picasa to run it, it didnt show in the menu anywhere. I am unable to find Picasa on my system and it says that it has been installed already when I try to reinstall it.

I have tried a few things;

looked for the key:

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

.. and then added it.

tried the following commands after adding Picasa to my source list:

sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo apt-get install picasa

and here is what I got:

swapnil@iva-swapo-netbook:~$ sudo apt-get install picasa
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
picasa is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded.

and when I tried to look for Picasa again.. I couldnt find it. So I am unable to install Picasa on my system.

Please help.

(I am also running this thread on ubuntu forums and havent got the solution yet so I am now here)


tried Jorge's solution and it brought Picasa immediately, however I am unable to keep it in the launcher. There is no such option. All I can see is only 2 options: 1. Wine 2. Quit

Still need help to keep it in the menu/launcher !

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