How to install Geekbench 4, 5 and 6 on Linux
Last updated on January 7, 2026
If you want to install and run Geekbench 4, 5 or Geekbench 6 on Linux, follow this tutorial. The following instructions can be used on:
- a local computer running any Linux distribution
- a remote Linux server (VPS, shared or dedicated hosting…) with access to the command line
I mostly use Geekbench to compare the performance of small VPS instances running Ubuntu Server.
1. Install Geekbench 4, 5 or Geekbench 6 on Linux
You do not need to run Geekbench as root (or use sudo).
1.1 In your home directory, create a temporary directory and enter it:
cd
mkdir geekbench-tmp
cd geekbench-tmp
1.2 Download the Geekbench 4 or 5 or the latest Geekbench 6 and extract the archives:
wget https://cdn.geekbench.com/Geekbench-4.4.4-Linux.tar.gz
tar -zxvf Geekbench-4.4.4-Linux.tar.gz
wget https://cdn.geekbench.com/Geekbench-5.5.1-Linux.tar.gz
tar -zxvf Geekbench-5.5.1-Linux.tar.gz
wget https://cdn.geekbench.com/Geekbench-6.5.0-Linux.tar.gz
tar -zxvf Geekbench-6.5.0-Linux.tar.gz
2. Run Geekbench 4, 5 and Geekbench 6 on Linux
2.1 Enter Geekbench 4 directory and run it:
cd Geekbench-4.4.4-Linux/
./geekbench_x86_64
2.2 Enter Geekbench 5 directory and run it:
cd Geekbench-5.5.1-Linux/
./geekbench_x86_64
2.3 Enter Geekbench 6 directory and run it:
cd Geekbench-6.5.0-Linux/
./geekbench_x86_64
Once Geekbench has finished running, it will display a link to the results, which could look like this:
3. Uninstall Geekbench
To uninstall Geekbench on Linux, simply remove the temporary Geekbench directory:
cdrm -r geekbench-tmp
By Johannes Eva, January 2011 – January 2026
7 thoughts on “How to set up automatic updates on Ubuntu Server 20.04, 22.04 or 24.04”
Stu*** comment… you’re just saying it shouldn’t do it because it shouldn’t behave like Windows. Something is not wrong, just because has the same behaviour. Then Linux shouldn’t store data in files, because Windows does the same, it shouldn’t use SSDs, USB disks, ..
It does need to reboot on kernel updates however. And this apparently checks whether a reboot is required before rebooting.
is there a way to setup the updates to run on a specific day of the week, eg: Saturdays at 6am? or something like that?
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What about the
/etc/apt/apt.conf.d/10periodicfile? It has the same content as/etc/apt/apt.conf.d/20auto-upgrades.Personally, I would not recommend to configure the auto reboot (step 2).
One of the good things about linux is that nearly all updates do not require system reboot.
This setting makes linux behave like windows, doesn’t it?
Don’t uncomment
${distro_id}:${distro_codename}-updatesunless you know what you’re doing. This will enable unattended NON-SECURITY updates, which may break your server configuration.Comments are closed.