Picasa 3.5 on Linux

Since Google has dropped the ball on the Linux version of Picasa 3.5 I had to find my own way to install it.  The method from here did not work for me.  When I tried to install the windows version of Picasa 3.5 on my version of wine (1.1.30) it just hung and used up all of my memory. 

What I realized is that the 3.0 version of Picasa for linux that I already have installed runs on wine.  So I just used that version of wine to install the 3.5 version of picasa.  On my machine the binary is in /opt/google/picasa/3.0/wine/bin.  Using wine from there Picasa 3.5 installed without a hitch.

The biggest advantage of Picasa 3.5 is the facial recognition feature, it scans all of your photos, identifies the faces and lets you tag them with names.  The cool part is that once you have tagged a face the program attempts to find all the matching faces and automatically tag them for you.  It works pretty well, and it is a lot of fun to go through your photos to see who is there.

Now, if only I could get Netflix to work without Virtualbox...