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@@ -17,17 +17,23 @@ You need to have the following REQUIREMENTS installed:
   * wget (to download some config files during the installation)
 
 On debian-based system you can use this:
+```bash
   apt-get install build-essential pkg-config cmake git paraview wget gnuplot libsuitesparse-dev
+```
 
 Then, you can the execute the script and it will download the dune repositories and dumux
 and configure all modules with CMake
+```bash
   ./install.sh
+```
 This will clone the necessary repositories (in a subfolder 'dumux'),
 build all libaries.
 
 Run the script test_dumux.sh in the newly created dumux folder
 to test your installation of dumux.
+```bash
   ./test_dumux.sh
+```
 It will compile and run a simple one-phase ground water flow example
 and visualizes the result using paraview.