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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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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

N0rbert
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