Google Repositories

[hyper_ch]

Did you know google offers now several repositories for it's software (Picasa for Linux 2.7 & Google Desktop Linux 1.2)?

http://www.google.com/linuxrepositories/index.html

[Canis familiaris]

Yes knew about it since Feisty.

However looking at that site and still seeing Feisty there, is kinda dissapointing.

[hyper_ch]

Yes knew about it since Feisty.

And you never told me???

[stinger30au]

so if we use the software on anything else like 8.04 or 8.10 do we get breakage or what is the go???

[hyper_ch]

you could try it out

[ne0h]

Yup, knew it before. Heads up

[Vishal Agarwal]

Just yesterday I was checking my gmail, and I saw the google Photos tag. At that point of time I come to know about the google Ubuntu S/W's.

Sorry for that I didn't informed to forum.

[Dragonbite]

Oh, this is good news! Thanks!

I use Picasa and was mulling whether that will be a problem when I move to 8.10 (or even if I wait for 9.04).

Ouch! Ubuntu 7.04? openSUSE 10.2? That's the problem with 3rd party repositories.. it's only as good as they are kept up-to-date!

Oh well.. I'll just have to keep an eye on the individual applications "manually"

[hyper_ch]

as I see the repos they are not ubuntu-version dependant. for google earth they also provide binaries only... so I assume it's the same there.

[VCSkier]

I haven't tried Picasa from that repository in Intrepid yet, but in 8.04, it works fine. I'm still using the stable release, Picasa 2.7.

The .deb's they offer are basically release agnostic. The mention of Ubuntu 7.04 is in reference to the steps and screenshots they have up for setting up apt to use their repository. The screenshots are from 7.04, so they're outdated, but that process hasn't changed much, so there is really no reason to update the 3-step-process of adding a 3rd party repo with every release. It makes sense to me.

Basically, it should work. The repo's are up to date, but the screenshots for setting up the usage of the repo aren't.