Simon Royal wrote:

Hi I am interested in getting Geekbench in Xubuntu. I have downloaded the file from the website, unpacked it and went to Execute it, but it doesn't do anything. I'm dual booting XP and Xubuntu on my ThinkPad 600 and have benched XP and would like to see if there is an diference under Xubuntu.

Simon Royal

Works for me

http://browse.geekbench.ca/geekbench2/view?id=243754

First of all if you are new to linux you should know that as a security measure executable files will only run if placed within a directory that is included in your path

This is to prevent somebody placing a rogue file called say "ls" in your home dir and thus tricking you into running it.

You can circumvent this by adding ./ before the filename when launching it from a terminal or by calling it with a full path to the file (i.e. /home/foo/desktop/filename)

So unpack the archive...then a few folders down you will find geekbench_x86_32, extract this somewhere and then in a terminal navigate to this place and run ./geekbench_x86_32

Alternatively if you want it to run normally you need to save it in one of the directories returned by running the command 'echo $PATH' but hopefully you will need superuser access to write files in there.