Get Deall.II from http://www.dealii.org/ Compile it (~/deal.II/) Compile PARALUTION (~/paralution-x.y.z/) cd ~/deal.II/ mkdir ns-proj cd ns-proj cp -r ~/paralution-x.y.z/src/examples/dealii/* . Edit ns-paralution-pres/Makefile to set the correct path to PARALUTION Check the parameter-file.prm files in each directory Run Deal II code only: cd ns-dealii make ./ns Run Deal II + PARALUTION cd ns-paralution-pres make ./ns-paralution-pres