Follow the usage instructions on the Paragon website to download and set up Paragon. http://www.cse.chalmers.se/research/group/paragon/ 1) Create a directory for Paragon & for PrettyBook. Navigate to it. $ cd ~ $ mkdir paragon $ cd paragon 2) Download Paragon, Paragon interface files, and Paragon runtime. $ wget http://www.cse.chalmers.se/research/group/paragon/downloads/distr/linux64/parac-0.2 $ mv parac-0.2 parac $ chmod a+x parac $ wget http://www.cse.chalmers.se/research/group/paragon/downloads/lib/libPI.zip $ unzip libPI.zip $ wget http://www.cse.chalmers.se/research/group/paragon/downloads/lib/paragon_rt.jar 3) Get libffi (foreign function interface) to work w/ Paragon. Paragon uses an outdated version of this library. Fortunately, symlinking the old version to the new version works. This is a dirty hack! You should delete this symlink (.6) once you're done w/ A5. $ sudo ln -s /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libffi.so.7 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libffi.so.6 4) Download and extract PrettyBook into this directory.