diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index fb14b58..d2f4091 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
+fontforge*
+FontForge*
 poppler*
 build
 compile_commands.json
diff --git a/buildScripts/getFontforge b/buildScripts/getFontforge
index d1094f7..90caf9d 100755
--- a/buildScripts/getFontforge
+++ b/buildScripts/getFontforge
@@ -2,7 +2,22 @@
 
 # This bash script gets and unpacks the latest fontforge AppImage
 
-sudo add-apt-repository ppa:fontforge/fontforge
-sudo apt-get update
-sudo apt-get install libfontforge-dev
+# The ppa is "rather old" ;-(
+#sudo add-apt-repository ppa:fontforge/fontforge
+#sudo apt-get update
+#sudo apt-get install libfontforge-dev
+
+source buildScripts/versionEnvs
+
+rm -rf $FONTFORGE_APPIMAGE
+rm -rf squashfs-root
+rm -rf fontforge
+
+wget https://github.com/fontforge/fontforge/releases/download/$FONTFORGE_VERSION/$FONTFORGE_APPIMAGE
+
+chmod a+x $FONTFORGE_APPIMAGE
+
+./$FONTFORGE_APPIMAGE --appimage-extract
+
+mv squashfs-root fontforge
 
diff --git a/buildScripts/getPoppler b/buildScripts/getPoppler
index 1fce35d..ce9474f 100755
--- a/buildScripts/getPoppler
+++ b/buildScripts/getPoppler
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ source buildScripts/versionEnvs
 echo "Getting poppler version: $POPPLER_VERSION"
 
 rm -rf $POPPLER_VERSION.tar.xz
+rm -rf poppler
 
 wget https://poppler.freedesktop.org/$POPPLER_VERSION.tar.xz
 
diff --git a/buildScripts/versionEnvs b/buildScripts/versionEnvs
index 4a97bb0..e53354a 100644
--- a/buildScripts/versionEnvs
+++ b/buildScripts/versionEnvs
@@ -6,4 +6,4 @@
 export POPPLER_VERSION=poppler-0.82.0
 export FONTFORGE_VERSION=20190801
 
-export FONTFORGE_APPIMAGE=https://github.com/fontforge/fontforge/releases/download/20190801/FontForge-2019-08-01-ac635b8-x86_64.AppImage
+export FONTFORGE_APPIMAGE=FontForge-2019-08-01-ac635b8-x86_64.AppImage