Picasa install wine phoenicis

#1

Hello,

I am new to Endless os, Linux in general.
Always using Windows.
Well, I quiet love this new thing :slight_smile:

But I do still miss some programs/apps.
Like Picasa (I know it’s no longer available, but you still can get is somewhere, already have an .exe file ready)

I did some research and came out on something called wine.
Looks like for Endless, this is now Phoenicis ?

Problem here is I have no idea how to use this?
Is there a possibility to launch an .exe file true this?
Just want to install and use Picasa.

Thanks in advance.

#2

Hi,

you can’t directly, as EOS is Linux based and does not support running Windows Applications Out-of-the-Box.

If you really need to run Windows applications, you have to run “Wine” - which is a Windows Runtime Environment for Linux inside a Podman container.

To install such a Podman container, follow this Tutorial:

When finished, you can install Wine inside this container. I haven’t written a EOS specific tutorial for this yet, but there are plenty Tutorials out there in the wild - google for “Ubuntu Wine Tutorial”.

#3

Thanks!

That sounds complicated… :slight_smile: I am very new to Linux - Endless.

That’s the problem, I can find a lot of things for Ubuntu and Mint,
but with Endless I don’t have that many options it seems.

Nothing I can install and it will install Picasa for me? :wink:

#4

Nothing I can do with the Phoenicis PlayOnLinux app ? Description is: Install and run Windows software on Linux?

#5

I highly recommend to simply use a alternative software for Picase - something that’s still developed :slight_smile:

Personally, i use XnView as my picture management solution. Runs on many different Platforms (Windows, Mac, Linux) and is available in EOS.

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#6

haha Yes I know :slight_smile: Sometimes change is a good thing lol
But then again, being a windows user for whole my life and starting with Linux is already a nice step :slight_smile:

I tried the XnView along with several other programs, but still haven’t found what I’m looking for.

What I use Picasa for is: I have to make a lot of images the same size by cropping them, so they have a standard size. I can choose which part of he image I want to be visible. Then can save them all.
After that I need to resize them all to a specific size which I use Pics resizer.

If I can find something similar, I don’t need Picasa or Pics resizer. But I do now :slight_smile:

#7

For Batch-style transformations, you can use the Image Viewer “Nomacs”. It’s currently not available in the Appcenter, but as i use it on a regular basis, i’ve created a Flatpak which can be installed directlry in EOS.

Download the released Flatpak from:

Then, install it with:

flatpak install --user -y ~/Downloads/nomacs312.flatpak

For further Details on Nomacs and it’s usage, see their excellent documentation:

#8

Thanks egrath!

I want to try this. I downloaded the zip file and is now extracted.
But how do I install? Where do I have to type for the flatpak to install?
I’m, sorry, but I’m totally new in this.

Thank you!

#9

Hi, you have to download the flatpak file :slight_smile:
https://github.com/egrath/nomacs-flatpak/releases/download/v1.1/nomacs312.flatpak

#10

Ok, thanks ! At first sight this looks nice. Like what I need :slight_smile:
Will figure it out a bit more, but it’s looking promising!

Do you know if I can select a bunch of photo’s and say that I want them to be 800 by 640 ?

Thank you very much!

#11

Yes that’s possible. You can even apply multiple operations at once, like resampling and cropping.

#12

Sounds great!
I will defenitly try it out some more and see how everything works!
Also great to have the documentation.

Thank you very much for your time and effort!

#13

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