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Picasa is a photo gallery application that Google abandoned. I'm trying to install it on Ubuntu 20.10 and got an "unsatisfiable dependency" error. I enabled i386 architecture but nothing worked. I tried to force installation and have the following:

picasa : Depends: libc6-i386 (>= 2.2) but it is not going to be installed
          Depends: ia32-libs but it is not installable
          Depends: lib32asound2 but it is not installable
          Depends: lib32z1 but it is not going to be installed
          Depends: ia32-libs-gtk but it is not installable
E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt --fix-broken install' with no packages (or specify a solution).

How can I fix this?

user26732
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  • You may find this article interesting. https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2019/09/ubuntu-32-bit-support-process-outlined – David Mar 19 '21 at 11:18
  • Interesting, but it doesn't show how to fix my problem. – user26732 Mar 19 '21 at 11:20
  • Maybe they did not do the ones you need I did not read the name of every module. – David Mar 19 '21 at 11:21
  • I looked up one package, and it's not available on any supported release of Ubuntu. I also believe I tried installing it long ago & it was a problem then due to dependencies (though do-able as I did it on my test system), but I decided it wasn't worth it (didn't repeat the install on my real system). Google abandoned it they said because better alternatives existed on GNU/Linux, and those alternatives were easy to install (being supported) so I never did it again. – guiverc Mar 19 '21 at 12:13
  • @user26732 could you please share the installation deb-package (link or file)? – N0rbert Mar 19 '21 at 12:40
  • You are going to have to figure out what versions of those libraries are needed (the info from ldd may give a hint), fetch the sourcecode and build them yourself -or- see if you can find them in an older version of a Ubuntu repository somewhere. SInce Picasa is not OSS you have no chance of trying to build it towards newer versions of the libs. How technically inclined are you? – Nikolaj Hansen Mar 19 '21 at 13:05
  • @N0rbert: Sure. I don't know which download sites are acceptable on this forum, but here it is: https://lilfile.com/hvPcof – user26732 Mar 19 '21 at 18:06
  • I guess I'll try the Windows version and Wine. There are similar programs, but I don't know of any that will build a database immediately when you attach an external drive. – user26732 Mar 19 '21 at 18:06

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I tried to simulate the process of Picasa deb-package installation on modern Ubuntu 20.10. It is almost impossible because of very limited set of 32-bit packages. And Qt4 is missed in the repositories.

So I would recommend to use PlayOnLinux with Wine to install the Picasa application. You have to:

  1. Install PlayOnLinux

    sudo apt-get install playonlinux

  2. Launch PlayOnLinux

  3. Click Install

  4. Search for Google Picasa in the wizard, click Install

    Picasa in PlayOnLinux

  5. Allow wizard to download Picasa 3.9 from the internet and install it

  6. Launch Picasa

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