diff --git a/buildScripts/buildInstallLocallyDnf b/buildScripts/buildInstallLocallyDnf
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+#!/bin/sh
+
+# This shell script builds the complete pdf2htmlEX application LOCALLY
+# (It does not create the AppImage or Container images)
+
+# Adjust the following two environment variables to suit your needs
+#
+export UNATTENDED="-y --setopt=install_weak_deps=False"
+export MAKE_PARALLEL="-j $(nproc)"
+
+# choose one of the following...
+#
+# export PDF2HTMLEX_BRANCH="<<YourTagHereWithNoSpaces>>"
+export PDF2HTMLEX_BRANCH="$(git rev-parse --abbrev-ref HEAD)"
+
+# The following environment variable determines where the poppler,
+# poppler-data, fontforge and pdf2htmlEX packages are installed.
+# CHANGE IT TO SUIT YOUR NEEDS:
+#
+export PDF2HTMLEX_PREFIX=/usr/local
+
+# Ensure all Apt packages are installed with no user interaction
+#
+export DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive
+
+set -ev
+
+################
+# do the build
+
+./buildScripts/versionEnvs
+
+./buildScripts/reportEnvs
+
+./buildScripts/getBuildToolsDnf
+
+./buildScripts/getDevLibrariesDnf
+
+./buildScripts/getPoppler
+
+./buildScripts/buildPoppler
+
+./buildScripts/getFontforge
+
+./buildScripts/buildFontforge
+
+./buildScripts/buildPdf2htmlEX
+
+./buildScripts/installPdf2htmlEX
diff --git a/buildScripts/getBuildToolsDnf b/buildScripts/getBuildToolsDnf
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+#!/bin/sh
+
+# This shell script automates getting the required build tools (dnf install)
+
+# set the shell environment variable 'UNATTENDED' to 
+# '--setopt=install_weak_deps=False' for unattended use (for example in 
+# the .travis.yml script) 
+
+echo ""
+echo "-------------------------------------------------------------------"
+echo "INSTALLING Build Tools (using DNF)"
+echo "  (UNATTENDED: [$UNATTENDED])"
+echo "-------------------------------------------------------------------"
+echo ""
+
+set -ev
+
+sudo dnf $UNATTENDED install  \
+  sudo                        \
+  wget                        \
+  git                         \
+  pkg-config                  \
+  ruby                        \
+  autoconf                    \
+  libtool                     \
+  cmake                       \
+  make                        \
+  gcc                         \
+  g++                         \
+  dpkg                        \
+  dpkg-dev                    \
+  gettext                     \
+  java-1.8.0-openjdk-headless \
+  jq
+
diff --git a/buildScripts/getDevLibrariesDnf b/buildScripts/getDevLibrariesDnf
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+#!/bin/sh
+
+# This shell script automates getting the development libraries required to 
+# build poppler and fontforge
+
+# set the shell environment variable 'UNATTENDED' to 
+# '--setopt=install_weak_deps=False' for unattended use (for example in 
+# the .travis.yml script) 
+
+echo ""
+echo "-------------------------------------------------------------------"
+echo "INSTALLING development libraries (using DNF)"
+echo "  (UNATTENDED: [$UNATTENDED])"
+echo "-------------------------------------------------------------------"
+echo ""
+
+set -ev
+
+sudo dnf $UNATTENDED install \
+  cairo-devel                \
+  libpng-devel               \
+  libjpeg-turbo-devel        \
+  libxml2-devel