Picasa for Linux

Picasa for Linux was no longer supported by Google since years ago, I'm sure there are still a few people on Linux using it but they don't even provide the download files for the older version anymore. 

You can find them here:
http://packages.linuxmint.com/pool/import/p/picasa/

If the above link is no longer available, try google for the following files:

picasa_3.0.5724-01_amd64.deb	2008-Oct-27 12:21:39	29.7M	application/x-debian-package
picasa_3.0.5724-01_i386.deb	2008-Oct-27 12:20:12	29.8M	application/x-debian-package
picasa_3.0.5744-02_amd64.deb	2011-Jan-24 08:59:33	30.3M	application/x-debian-package
picasa_3.0.5744-02_i386.deb	2011-Jan-24 09:00:16	30.3M	application/x-debian-package

picasa on linux cannot gmail

first of all, I don't know why Google doesn't offer picasa linux version download anymore! it's really annoying.  Good that I kept a .deb file downloaded somewhere from the past.  With picasa installed on Ubuntu 11.10, I had problems sending out pictures through my gmail!

looking at the logs, it doesn't tell you much...
[173601742] id 1: Attempting connection type 0 (attempt 0)
[173601765] InternetQueryOption failed (87)
[173601775] Proxy information for connection: LAN Connection
Using direct connection
[173601777] InternetQueryOption failed (87)
[173601779] Proxy information for default connection:
Using direct connection
[173601786] id 1: Stream summary:
POST request: https://www.google.com/accounts/ClientAuth (0)
Modified request headers:
 Added header: Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded; charset=utf-8
Added header: Accept-Encoding: gzip

BindStatus messages received: 70,
Request made via proxy
Post data size: 112
[173601788] id 1: Error: HttpOpenRequest failed (12157)
[173601789] id 1: Failed to establish connection.  will retry if possible
[173601791] id 1: Attempting connection type 1 (attempt 1)
[173601796] id 1: Stream summary:
POST request: https://www.google.com/accounts/ClientAuth (0)

It turns out on my Ubuntu11 it's got libssl1.0.0 installed, but picasa is looking for
libssl0.9.8, so just install it picasa would work again through gmail!

apt-get install libssl0.9.8

UPDATE:
on 64-bit Ubuntu 13.10 , install the 32-bit
apt-get install libssl0.9.8:i386
also install:
apt-get install lib32nss-mdns