HOWTO: Install OpenGL/Graphic card Benchmark utility - SVN

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Doesn't work in Ubuntu Breezy 5.10 and below
Tested: 6.04 x86, 6.10 x86, 7.04 x86 | 7.10 64-bit, 8.04 64-bit and 8.10 64-bit


NB: Nvidia 9xxx driver support GL_shadow.

A couple a months ago I found this handy little tool which are build for benchmarking your Graphic card. The name of the tool is GLobs.
Before you start, make sure you have universe enable in your sourcelist. There's plenty of threads and howtos throughout the forum to do so.

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Before Installation:

Make sure that your sourcelist is properly set up and your 3D driver for your graphic card is working.
Next step is getting you the right compiling tools and depended libs to compile and making Globs working:

7.04 and previous releases:

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo apt-get install build-essential subversion scons
sudo apt-get install libsdl-image1.2-dev libsqlite0-dev libsqlite3-0 libsqlite3-dev python-gnome2-dev python-gobject-dev python-gtk2-dev python2.4-opengl x11proto-gl-dev libgtk2.0-dev python2.4-pysqlite2 freeglut3-dev

7.10, 8.04 and 8.10:

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo apt-get install build-essential subversion scons
sudo apt-get install libsdl-image1.2-dev libsqlite0-dev libsqlite3-0 libsqlite3-dev python-gnome2-dev python-gobject-dev python-gtk2-dev python-opengl x11proto-gl-dev libgtk2.0-dev python2.4-pysqlite2 freeglut3-dev

Installation:

Now to the compiling and installing;

cd ~/Desktop
svn co https://globs.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/globs/globs/trunk globs
svn co https://globs.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/globs/benchmarks/trunk globs/src/benchmarks
cd globs
scons
sudo scons install prefix=/usr
sudo python patchdir.py prefix=/usr
sudo python setup.py install --prefix=/usr

Last step is making an application launcher;

sudo rm -f /usr/share/applications/globs.desktop
sudo nano /usr/share/applications/globs.desktop

add the following text:

[Desktop Entry]
Name=GL O.B.S.
Comment=OpenGL Benchmark Utility
Exec=globs %F
Icon=/usr/share/globs/pixmaps/globs.png
Terminal=false
Type=Application
Categories=Application;System;


Save and exit.
[ctrl]+[o] | [ctrl]+[x]

You can now start GLobs in the Application tab ---> System Tools or type globs in the terminal.