Installing the latest Google Picasa in Ubuntu over wine

Google Picasa is not really created for linux, but can be installed via Wine in Ubuntu.

These are the steps:

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

Add the repo for picasa
sudo sh -c 'echo "deb http://dl.google.com/linux/deb/ testing non-free" >> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google.list'

Update apt and installing picasa
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install picasa

Run Picasa once and close it
picasa &

Download the latest version of Google Picasa into your home folder
cd ~ && wget http://dl.google.com/picasa/picasa39-setup.exe

Run the Picasa installer with wine
sudo WINEPREFIX=/tmp/.wine_picasa /opt/google/picasa/3.0/wine/bin/wine ~/picasa39-setup.exe

After installation completes, close all the open Picasa windows.
Then copy the installation over package files
sudo cp -r /tmp/.wine_picasa/drive_c/Program\ Files/Google/Picasa3/* /opt/google/picasa/3.0/wine/drive_c/Program\ Files/Google/Picasa3/

Clean up your home folder
rm -rf ~/.google/picasa/
rm ~/picasa39-setup.exe

Suggested installing IE6 to overcome picasa authentication errors
env WINEARCH=win32 WINEPREFIX=~/.google/picasa/3.0/ winetricks ie6