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.
We only provide instructions to uninstall Picasa from the command line here. If you want to uninstall Picasa with your Linux distribution's GUI tools, please consult their documentation.

- RPM

  Systems like Red Hat, Fedora, SuSE, and Mandriva use the Red Hat Package Manager (RPM) format. If you selected this format, you should use your system tools to remove the 'picasa' package. From a root console, that would be:

  > rpm --erase picasa

  To check if you used the Red Hat Package Manager to install Picasa, you can run this command from the console:

  > rpm -q picasa

  If it is installed, the output looks like:

  > picasa-version_number

  If it is not installed, the output looks like:

  > package picasa is not installed

- Debian

  Systems like Debian, Ubuntu, and Xandros use the Debian package format. If you installed with this format, you should use your system tools to remove the 'picasa' package. From a root console, that would be:

  > dpkg --purge picasa

  To check if you used the Debian package format to install Picasa, you can run this command from the console:

  > dpkg -s picasa

  If it is installed, the output looks like:

  > Package: picasa
  > Status: install ok installed
  > ...

  If it is not installed, the output looks like:

  > Package: picasa
  > Status: purge ok not-installed
  > ...

- Picasa data file removal
  The .google/picasa folder in your home directory contains Picasa's data files. Every version of Picasa has a separate folder inside .google/picasa. For instance, Picasa 3.0 uses .google/picasa/3.0 for its data files. These files are not removed when you uninstall Picasa. To remove them, simply delete that folder, For instance,

  > cd $HOME
  > rm -rf .google/picasa/3.0