On 5/26/06, Rakhesh Sasidharan <rakheshster@gmail.com> wrote:
> Google release Picasa for Linux
> (http://trends.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=06/05/25/2343255&from=rss).
> It runs thru WINE.
>
> The article repeatedly says Picasa is for Linux. I don't get it -- if
> Picasa runs using WINE, and since WINE is there for NetBSD (and
> whatever patches Google made too will eventually get thru to NetBSD),
> we should eventually be able to run Picasa on NetBSD right? Unless
> ofcourse I hope the Google patches to WINE are not Linux specific or
> something ... Any comments?

Be aware that Picasa is only shipped in binary form for Linux and it
is bundled with wine and everything else it needs, except libc.  That
is, you needn't install wine from pkgsrc.  At least that is what I
understand from the web page.

Trying it under NetBSD should be easy, assuming you have the SuSE
linux compat packages (available in pkgsrc) and COMPAT_LINUX in your
kernel.  I do not know whether it will work or not.

Cheers,

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