Fedora 16 x86_64 and Picasa Segmentation Fault

If you run into this error while trying to start Picasa on Fedora 16 64 bit system:

/usr/bin/picasa: line 189: 5216 Segmentation fault (core dumped) "$PIC_BINDIR"/wrapper check_dir.exe.so /usr/bin/picasa: line 248: 5325 Segmentation fault (core dumped) "$PIC_BINDIR"/wrapper set_lang.exe.so

 then, what fixed it is doing the following:

 - install the 'wine' package:

 yum install wine

 - copy the 'wine-preloader':

cp /usr/bin/wine-preloader /opt/google/picasa/3.0/wine/bin/wine-preloader

 Picasa should start now.

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