knews software package provides Graphical threaded news reader, you can install in your Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (Precise Pangolin) by running the commands given below on the terminal,
$ sudo apt-get update $ sudo apt-get install knews
knews is installed in your system.
Make ensure the knews package were installed using the commands given below,
$ sudo dpkg-query -l | grep knews *
You will get with knews package name, version, architecture and description in a table
| Distro | Ubuntu 12 04 lts precise pangolin |
| Section | Newsgroups |
| Package | knews |
| Version | 1.0b.1-26 |
| Description | Graphical threaded news reader |
| Sub Section | News |