Fix Picasa Segmentation Fault in Fedora 14

Without going into too many details, if you are running Fedora 14 and Picasa fails to start, try running it from the command line. If you get the following output:


/usr/bin/picasa: line 189: 14526 Segmentation fault      (core dumped) "$PIC_BINDIR"/wrapper check_dir.exe.so
/usr/bin/picasa: line 248: 14642 Segmentation fault      (core dumped) "$PIC_BINDIR"/wrapper set_lang.exe.so

Then there's a good chance the following fix will help:

(on the command line as root)

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

BOOM! Picasa works again.



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Install Android Eclipse Plugin in Fedora Linux

Update: 
Thanks to a reader Kris who pointed out that this fix also works for Eclipse in Windows 7 64bit. 


If you get this error in a fresh installation of Eclipse in Linux (Fedora 14 i686 in this case) then there's a good chance some additional plugins are missing:


Cannot complete the install because one or more required items could not be found.
  Software being installed: Android Development Tools 8.0.1.v201012062107-82219 (com.android.ide.eclipse.adt.feature.group 8.0.1.v201012062107-82219)
  Missing requirement: Android Development Tools 8.0.1.v201012062107-82219 (com.android.ide.eclipse.adt.feature.group 8.0.1.v201012062107-82219) requires 'org.eclipse.gef 0.0.0' but it could not be found


It's very easy to fix it. In Eclipse go to Help->Install New Software and add a new software source appropriate to your Eclipse version. As of January 2011, I'm running Eclipse Helios (3.6.1) and its source is:  http://download.eclipse.org/releases/helios. Type that into the 'Work with:' text field and let the list auto-update. Once it's updated check the "WST Server Adapters" from the list and finish the wizard. 
After it installs, the Android plugin for Eclipse should finish installing without a problem. 

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