Ubuntu Linux >= 10.04
On launchpad.net there is a PPA for the NetNewsTicker which you can add to your system via the Konsole as follows:
sudo apt-add-repository ppa:christau/netnewsticker
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install netnewsticker
After this the NetNewsTicker is installed in your system and will be kept up to date by the system.
Debian
On Debian derivates you can simply install the downloaded *.deb file by executing the following command in the Konsole
sudo dpkg -i <package>.deb
RPM
On all distributions using the RPM system, the *.rpm file can be installed as follows via the Konsole
sudo rpm -i <package>.rpm
Published on Wednesday November 10th, 2010Modified on Friday January 14th, 2011