KNewsTicker is part of the kdenetwork package of KDE 2.1 and is installed together with it. In general, there is no need for the user to compile the sourcecode of KNewsTicker by hand. If you nevertheless intend to do so or if you have only the sourcecode available, compilation and installation is, as usual on Linux, done by typing:
% ./configure % make % su -c "make install" |
KNewsTicker uses autoconf and automake, so there shouldn't occur any problems during the compilation process. If you do hit on any problems though, please contact the KDE developers mailing list <kde-devel@master.kde.org>.