diff --git a/.github/workflows/build_libmesh_v1.5.1.yml b/.github/workflows/libmesh_v1.5.1_ubuntu20.04.yml
similarity index 65%
rename from .github/workflows/build_libmesh_v1.5.1.yml
rename to .github/workflows/libmesh_v1.5.1_ubuntu20.04.yml
index 720aa19..f32af0a 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/build_libmesh_v1.5.1.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/libmesh_v1.5.1_ubuntu20.04.yml
@@ -1,27 +1,17 @@
-name: Linux - libMesh-1.5.1
+name: libMesh-1.5.1.deb (Ubuntu 20.04)
 
 # Controls when the action will run. Triggers the workflow on push or pull request
-# events but only for the main branch
+# events on any branch but only when this file is modified.
 on: 
-  # trigger on pushes to develop or main
   push:
-    #branches: 
-    #  - main
-    #  - master
-    #  - develop
-    paths-ignore:
-      - "*.md"
-      - "*.rst"
+    branches: 
+    paths:
+      - ".github/workflows/libmesh_v1.5.1_ubuntu20.04.yml"
 
-  # trigger on pull request to main or develop
   pull_request:
     branches:
-      - develop
-      - main
-      - master
-    paths-ignore:
-      - "*.md"
-      - "*.rst"
+    paths:
+      - ".github/workflows/libmesh_v1.5.1_ubuntu20.04.yml"
 
   # trigger manually from GitHub Actions tab
   workflow_dispatch:
@@ -29,18 +19,20 @@ on:
 jobs:
   build_libmesh:
     runs-on: ubuntu-20.04
+    env: 
+      MY_WORK_PATH: ${{ github.workspace }}/work
     steps:
       - uses: actions/checkout@v2
 
       # Print out some useful diagnostic info about the job/environment.
       - name: Diagnostic info
         run: |
-          echo "=============================================================";
-          echo "Run #${GITHUB_RUN_NUMBER}";
-          echo "Run ID: ${GITHUB_RUN_ID}";
-          echo "Testing: ${GITHUB_REPOSITORY}";
-          echo "Triggered by: ${GITHUB_EVENT_NAME}";
-          echo "Initiated by: ${GITHUB_ACTOR}";
+          echo "GITHUB_WORKFLOW: ${GITHUB_WORKFLOW}"
+          echo "Run #${GITHUB_RUN_NUMBER}"
+          echo "Run ID: ${GITHUB_RUN_ID}"
+          echo "Testing: ${GITHUB_REPOSITORY}"
+          echo "Triggered by (GITHUB_EVENT_NAME): ${GITHUB_EVENT_NAME}"
+          echo "Initiated by (GITHUB_ACTOR): ${GITHUB_ACTOR}"
 
       # Update packages fromt apt repos.
       - name: Install APT dependencies
@@ -59,41 +51,38 @@ jobs:
             libeigen3-dev \
             libnlopt-dev \
             libadolc-dev \
-            doxygen graphviz rsync \
-      #       texlive-latex-base dvi2ps ghostscript \
-      #       python3.7 python3.7-dev libpython3.7
-
-      - name: Setup environment
-        run: |
-          export NP=2
-          mkdir ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/work
+            doxygen graphviz rsync
+      
+      - name: Setup working directory
+        run: mkdir ${MY_WORK_PATH}
 
-      # Fetch/configure libMesh.
       # Note we currently have to use a modified version of the release with some updates to the libMesh
-      # build to allow for a non-provided, non-PETSc version of metis provided by the Ubuntu repositories.
-      - name: Fetch/configure libMesh
-        timeout-minutes: 10
-        run: |
-          cd ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/work
+      # build to allow for a non-libMesh/contrib, non-PETSc version of metis provided by the Ubuntu repositories.
+      - name: Fetch libMesh
+        run: | 
+          cd ${MY_WORK_PATH}
           git clone -b v1.5.1_with_build_updates --single-branch https://github.com/jdeaton/libmesh.git
-          cd libmesh
+      
+      - name: Configure libMesh
+        run: |
+          cd ${MY_WORK_PATH}/libmesh
           mkdir build
           cd build
           export PETSC_DIR=/usr/lib/petsc
           export SLEPC_DIR=/usr/lib/slepc
           ../configure --quiet --prefix=/usr/local --with-methods="opt devel dbg" --enable-cxx11-required --disable-metaphysicl --disable-examples --enable-triangle=yes --enable-tetgen=yes --disable-strict-lgpl --with-metis=/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu --with-metis-include=/usr/include --with-nlopt-include=/usr/include --with-nlopt-lib=/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu
-      
-      - name: Make libMesh
+  
+      - name: Compile/install libMesh
         timeout-minutes: 180
         run: |
-          cd ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/work/libmesh/build
+          cd ${MY_WORK_PATH}/libmesh/build
           make -j 1
           sudo make install  
 
-      - name: Package libMesh
+      - name: Package libMesh into .deb
         run: |
           # Organize libMesh include/ and lib/ for packaging.
-          export PKG_DIR=${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/libmesh-1.5.1-1
+          export PKG_DIR=libmesh-1.5.1-1
           export INST_DIR=${PKG_DIR}/usr/local
           mkdir ${PKG_DIR}
           mkdir ${PKG_DIR}/usr
@@ -113,5 +102,5 @@ jobs:
       - name: Upload libMesh package artifact
         uses: actions/upload-artifact@v2
         with:
-          name: libmesh-1.5.1-ubuntu20.04
+          name: libmesh-1.5.1.deb-ubuntu20.04
           path: libmesh-1.5.1-1.deb
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