How do I uninstall Picasa?
This depends in large part on how you installed Picasa for Linux.
It comes in several flavors; read on to see if you can find one that matches your system.
Also note that you'll want to remove the ~/.picasa directory
(notice the dot) for each user that used Picasa; that directory
contains per user settings and configuration information.
The uninstall routine will try to do that for you, but if you
uninstall as the root user, it will be unable to do that for
other users, so you may wish to do that step yourself.
If you used the self installing script file, usually named something like
picasa-beta.run, then you can uninstall it using a graphical tool.
You simply need to run the program named 'uninstall' located in the
'picasa' directory (that directory will be wherever you selected
to install Picasa into).
Systems like Red Hat, Fedora, SuSE, and Mandriva use the Red Hat Package Manager (RPM)
format. If you selected this format, you should use you system tools to remove
the 'picasa' package. From a root console, that would be:
rpm --erase picasa
Systems like Debian, Ubuntu, and Xandros use the Debian package format.
If you installed with this format, you should use you system tools to remove
the 'picasa' package. From a root console, that would be:
dpkg --purge picasa
If you'd like to remove all traces of Picasa, and you can't remember
if you used RPM, Debian, or the Loki Installer, you can eliminate Picasa just
by removing its files. The Picasa files are located primarily in two
places: the picasa directory you selected when you installed, and the
.picasa directory in your home directory. If you're not sure where you
installed the Picasa files to, the default values are /opt/picasa for
root installs and ~/picasa,
where ~ refers to your home directory, for user installs.
By removing the files rather than running our uninstaller,
you prevent us from removing the Picasa icon from your menus.
So you will have to remove any menu entries created manually,
using the tools built into your Linux system.