Install Picasa 3.0 Beta On Ubuntu 8.10

To Install Picasa 3.0 On Ubuntu, follow step by step.
For Specific Improvement

• 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.

Remove existing Picasa
If you are using stable version you have to remove using the following command

$ sudo apt-get remove picasa

Install Picasa 3.0 beta in ubuntu
Import the google key using the following command

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

$ sudo apt-get update

Edit sources.list by type :

$ gedit /etc/apt/sources.list

add the following line Google testing repository

deb http://dl.google.com/linux/deb/ testing non-free

save and exit the file.
Update the source list file using the following command

$ sudo apt-get update

 
Install picasa using the following command

sudo apt-get install picasa

Happy Tesint...!!