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Hey, have you ever tried installing google applications on Ubuntu/Debian?

Yes, Picasa and Google Earth. We can have it running in Linux. If you haven’t tried installing them here is a simple to-do. Just follow and have fun!

First : Add the Google repository to apt sources list.You can find it here.

/etc/apt/sources.list

Second : Add the following lines to the end of sources.list

# Google testing repository
deb http://dl.google.com/linux/deb/ testing non-free

Third : Update apt-get repo cache by running this command at console.

# sudo apt-get update

or

# sudo aptitude update

Four : Install picasa or Google Earth

Run aptitude install

For picasa

# sudo aptitude install picasa

For Google Earth

# sudo aptitude install googleearth

You’re done with it, start using Picasa and Earth. You will surely start loving your Ubuntu installation much more.

I was in a hurry to install the new version of “Picasa” on Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon as previous version of Picasa didn’t allow me to upload the images to web directory. After adding the apt source to the sources.list, I ran aptitude update on my laptop and was hit by following error.

W: GPG error: http://dl.google.com testing Release: The following signatures couldn’t be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY A040830F7FAC5991
W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these problems

The error itself says what I should be doing to resolve the error. I found that the solution mentioned won’t work unless I resolve the previous GPG error. So, I was left with no other option other than fetching the GPG key and importing that to my system.

Here is the solution:
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