picasa will not start up after install

[irishy]

Help
can anyone point me in the right direction I have installed picasa 2.7I in ubuntu 9.10 but cannot get it to start up
thanks
Irishy

[arochester]

Try:
1)Alt+F2 and type picasa
2) Open a Terminal and type picasa
3) In the Menu find and click on "Run" and type picasa

You may need to manually edit your Menu to add Picasa

[irishy]

Thanks for your help I tried alt f2 no luck
I opened a terminal and typed picasa and entered but no luck I am unsure were menu is I really am basic
thanks again

[MelDJ]

what is the output when you type picasa in terminal?
it should be in apps-graphics

[irishy]

$ picasa
/usr/bin/picasa: line 139: 4031 Segmentation fault "$PIC_BINDIR"/wrapper check_dir.exe.so
/usr/bin/picasa: line 175: 4134 Segmentation fault "$PIC_BINDIR/wrapper" regedit /E $registry_export HKEY_USERS\\S-1-5-4\\Software\\Google\\Picasa\\Picasa2\\Preferences\ \

[Midnighter]

2.7 would not run for me either, so i installed 3.0 instead and it runs fine.

[mlentink]

You did not inadvertently try to install the Windows version of Picasa through Wine?

Did you download it from here: http://picasa.google.com/linux/download.html ?

[irishy]

Thanks for all your help I did download it from the link you have supplied but it was not the windows version
thanks

[irishy]

Thanks for all your help I have done what midnighter suggested and that works
thanks

[cmuxed]

2.7 would not run for me either, so i installed 3.0 instead and it runs fine.

Cheers from a fellow Aussie.. this worked for me too. I contemplated installing the beta but decided to comment out my test repo and just installed the stable... pfft. Didnt work... heard the hdd ticking over but nothing. Picasa 3 beta started up right away!

Cheers