Google Picasa is one of the best photo album managers available for windows and Linux. Also, Google provides web based album services. On Ubuntu you can install Picasa ( latest version is 3.0 beta) as detailed below.

The latest Picasa 3.0 offers the following features.

  • Improved integration with Picasa Web Albums
  • You can sync your Picasa 3 and Web Albums edits, change your online album settings from Picasa, and delete online albums from Picasa.
  • Better uploading with the upload Drop-box and bandwidth throttling.
  • New Retouch tool to remove unsightly blemishes and improve photo quality.
  • Improved Collage tool lets you have total artistic control over your collage content and layout.
  • Auto red-eye: same results, less work for you.
  • Easily add text or watermarks to your photos.

Linux specific changes / improvements

  • User data are now stored in ~/.google/picasa/.
  • Camera/media detection integrated with Gnome/KDE.
  • Mozilla/Firefox browser integration done via a plugin.
  • picasa:// urls work in Firefox 3.
  • Downloading albums from Picasa Web Albums launches faster.
  • Better Xinerama support.
  1. Select System-> Administration -> Software Sources and click on Third Party Software and add the following apt line.
    2. deb http://dl.google.com/linux/deb/ stable non-free main
  2. Click on add source and then close . System will ask you to reload the source. Do it and open a terminal and import the google apt-key as below.
    3. sudo wget -q -O - https://dl-ssl.google.com/linux/linux_signing_key.pub | apt-key add -apt-get update
  1. Now you can install picasa from synaptic. Or from the command line as
    2. $ sudo apt-get install picasa

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