How-To: Install RSSOwl 2.0 in Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic and 9.04 Jaunty

RSSOwl is a powerful feed reader application for Linux licensed under the Eclipse Public License and written in Java. To get it up and running in Ubuntu, all you have to do is follow the few steps below:


Install the unzip and sun-java6-bin packages:

sudo apt-get install unzip sun-java6-bin

With your user password. Next, download the .zip package from the official website (direct link here). Unzip it either graphically from Nautilus or issuing the command below in a terminal, making sure the current working directory is the one where you saved the rssowl-2.0-M9.linux.gtk.x86.zip file:

unzip rssowl-2.0-M9.linux.gtk.x86.zip

What you have now is an rssowl directory, which you can copy anywhere in your home directory.

To run RSSOwl, just run the script RSSOwl inside the rssowl directory:

./RSSOwl

Alternately, you can make a desktop shortcut to it. That's all.