diff --git a/buildScripts/getFontforge b/buildScripts/getFontforge
index 90caf9d..b5790a2 100755
--- a/buildScripts/getFontforge
+++ b/buildScripts/getFontforge
@@ -2,22 +2,15 @@
 
 # This bash script gets and unpacks the latest fontforge AppImage
 
-# 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 $FONTFORGE_APPIMAGE
-rm -rf squashfs-root
+FONTFORGE_SRC=fontforge-$FONTFORGE_VERSION.tar.gz
+
+rm -rf $FONTFORGE_SRC
 rm -rf fontforge
 
-wget https://github.com/fontforge/fontforge/releases/download/$FONTFORGE_VERSION/$FONTFORGE_APPIMAGE
+wget https://github.com/fontforge/fontforge/releases/download/$FONTFORGE_VERSION/$FONTFORGE_SRC
 
-chmod a+x $FONTFORGE_APPIMAGE
-
-./$FONTFORGE_APPIMAGE --appimage-extract
-
-mv squashfs-root fontforge
+tar xvf $FONTFORGE_SRC
 
+mv fontforge-$FONTFORGE_VERSION fontforge
diff --git a/buildScripts/versionEnvs b/buildScripts/versionEnvs
index e53354a..2a6e589 100644
--- a/buildScripts/versionEnvs
+++ b/buildScripts/versionEnvs
@@ -1,9 +1,7 @@
 #!/bin/bash
 
-# This bash script exports environment variables for the latest software 
+# This bash script exports environment variables for the latest software
 # versions
 
 export POPPLER_VERSION=poppler-0.82.0
 export FONTFORGE_VERSION=20190801
-
-export FONTFORGE_APPIMAGE=FontForge-2019-08-01-ac635b8-x86_64.AppImage