That's what I did - might be incomplete etc.

# Determine MATLAB directory, mex must be in the PATH.
MATLAB_ROOT=`mex -v 2>&1 | grep "MATLAB " | awk '{print $4}' | sed -e '2,$d'`
# May be thats not all you need
sudo apt-get install build-essential gcc-4.2 automake subversion \
 libtool libblas-dev liblapack-dev libqhull-dev libmuparser-dev
# Get the sources
svn co http://svn.gna.org/svn/getfem/trunk/getfem
cd getfem/
./autogen.sh
./configure --enable-matlab --disable-python --enable-superlu --with-pic \
 --enable-qhull --enable-mumps=no --with-matlab-toolbox-dir=$MATLAB_ROOT/toolbox/getfem_toolbox
# compile the library, speeded up using -j4, where 4 is the number of CPUs in your machine
make -j4 
 
# we have to move the old libraries to a different folder to make matlab use the newer ones from ubuntu
sudo mkdir $MATLAB_ROOT/sys/os/glnxa64/old
sudo mv $MATLAB_ROOT/sys/os/glnxa64/{libstdc*,libgcc_s*} $MATLAB_ROOT/sys/os/glnxa64/old/.
 
make -j4 check
# If all checks passed do
cd interface/src/matlab
sudo make install
 
# Add the path to the matlab path definitions file
echo "p=[matlabroot,'/toolbox/getfem_toolbox:',p];" | sudo tee -a $MATLAB_ROOT/toolbox/local/pathdef.m
 
# If you see an empty output, the path should be added correctly
$MATLAB_ROOT/bin/matlab -nodisplay -r "rehash toolboxcache; gf_workspace('clear'); exit;"

The following steps have to be executed before the steps in the instruction in the section above.

# Add old karmic package sources to install gcc-4.2, which is needed for mex
echo "deb http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ karmic universe" | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list
# install gcc-4.2
sudo apt-get update; sudo apt-get install gcc-4.2
# Determine MATLAB directory, mex must be in the PATH.
MATLAB_ROOT=`mex -v 2>&1 | grep "MATLAB " | awk '{print $4}' | sed -e '2,$d'`
# change gcc to gcc-4.2 and g++ to g++-4.2 in the mexopts file:
# note that for older matlab releases you need gcc-4.0 etc.
# make copy of the original file
sudo cp $MATLAB_ROOT/bin/mexopts.sh $MATLAB_ROOT/bin/mexopts.sh.old
# replace version numbers
sudo sed -i "s/CC='gcc'/CC='gcc-4.2'/" $MATLAB_ROOT/bin/mexopts.sh
sudo sed -i "s/CXX='g++'/CXX='g++-4.2'/" $MATLAB_ROOT/bin/mexopts.sh

The following steps have to be executed before the steps in the instruction in the section above.

This is still untested.

# install gcc-4.3
sudo apt-get install gcc-4.3
# Determine MATLAB directory, mex must be in the PATH.
MATLAB_ROOT=`mex -v 2>&1 | grep "MATLAB " | awk '{print $4}' | sed -e '2,$d'`
# change gcc to gcc-4.3 and g++ to g++-4.3 in the mexopts file:
# note that for older matlab releases you need gcc-4.0 etc.
# make copy of the original file
sudo cp $MATLAB_ROOT/bin/mexopts.sh $MATLAB_ROOT/bin/mexopts.sh.old
# replace version numbers
sed -i "s/CC='gcc'/CC='gcc-4.3'/" $MATLAB_ROOT/bin/mexopts.sh
sed -i "s/CXX='g++'/CXX='g++-4.3'/" $MATLAB_ROOT/bin/mexopts.sh

There is no parallel version of the matlab interface yet. The parallelization is still a work in progress in GetFEM++. The assembly procedures of the bricks are parallelized so that if the parallel version of MUMPS is used as the solver, one can build rather easily a parallelized code. This is all what it is done for the moment.

This is section I describe the steps to build the parallelized version of GetFEM++, which can be used in C++ code. This section is rather untested

# download, build and install libmetis
cd ~
wget -O- http://glaros.dtc.umn.edu/gkhome/fetch/sw/metis/metis-4.0.tar.gz | tar -xzvf -
cd metis-4.0
# we need a patch, to avoid a compile error (at least in Ubuntu Lucid), it does just some renaming
wget http://www.math-linux.com/IMG/patch/metis-4.0.patch
patch -p1 < metis-4.0.patch
# add this option
echo "COPTIONS = -fPIC" >> Makefile.in
make -j4
sudo cp libmetis.a /usr/lib64/.
# additionally to the dependencies mentioned in the sections above
sudo apt-get install libmumps-4.9.2 libmumps-dev mpich2
# append `--parallel-level=4` where 4 is the number of CPUs of your computer
cd ~/getfem/
./configure --disable-matlab --disable-python --enable-superlu --with-pic \
 --enable-qhull --enable-paralevel=4

Instead of building by your own you can easily download and install the following precompiled version of GetFEM++:

• GetFEM++ for MATLAB R2008a Ubuntu Lucid 64 bit (20.09.2010)
• GetFEM++ for MATLAB R2010a Ubuntu Lucid 64 bit (25.07.2010) (Works with both MATLAB R2010a and R2011a on Ubuntu Natty 11.04 too )

Install using:

link=<paste the link from above here>
MATLAB_ROOT=`mex -v 2>&1 | grep "MATLAB " | awk '{print $4}' | sed -e '2,$d'`
cd $MATLAB_ROOT/toolbox
wget -O- $link | sudo tar -xzvf -