diff --git a/contrib/installCXXDependencies.sh b/contrib/installCXXDependencies.sh
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+#!/bin/sh
+
+# Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+# or more contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file
+# distributed with this work for additional information
+# regarding copyright ownership. The ASF licenses this file
+# to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+# "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+# with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+# software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+# "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+# KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the
+# specific language governing permissions and limitations
+# under the License.
+
+
+# Mainly aiming Travis CI's Ubuntu machines for now
+# see what we need: http://thrift.apache.org/docs/install/ubuntu
+
+
+# General dependencies
+sudo apt-add-repository "deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty main restricted" -y
+sudo apt-get update -qq
+sudo apt-get install -qq libboost-dev libboost-test-dev libboost-program-options-dev libevent-dev automake libtool flex bison pkg-config g++ libssl-dev make libqt4-dev git debhelper bc 
+dpkg -S /usr/include/boost/version.hpp
diff --git a/contrib/installDependencies.sh b/contrib/installDependencies.sh
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+#!/bin/sh
+
+# Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+# or more contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file
+# distributed with this work for additional information
+# regarding copyright ownership. The ASF licenses this file
+# to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+# "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+# with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+# software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+# "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+# KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the
+# specific language governing permissions and limitations
+# under the License.
+
+SCRIPTPATH=$( cd $(dirname $0) ; pwd -P )
+
+# Mainly aiming Travis CI's Ubuntu machines for now
+# see what we need: http://thrift.apache.org/docs/install/ubuntu
+
+# General dependencies
+sh ${SCRIPTPATH}/installCXXDependencies.sh
+
+# Java dependencies
+sudo apt-get install -qq ant openjdk-7-jdk
+sudo update-java-alternatives -s java-1.7.0-openjdk-amd64 
+
+# Python dependencies
+sudo apt-get install -qq python-all python-all-dev python-all-dbg python-setuptools python-support
+
+# Ruby dependencies
+sudo apt-get install -qq ruby ruby-dev
+sudo gem install bundler rake
+
+# Perl dependencies
+sudo apt-get install -qq libbit-vector-perl libclass-accessor-class-perl
+
+# Php dependencies
+sudo apt-get install -qq php5 php5-dev php5-cli php-pear re2c
+
+# GlibC dependencies
+sudo apt-get install -qq libglib2.0-dev
+
+# Erlang dependencies
+sudo apt-get install -qq erlang-base erlang-eunit erlang-dev
+
+# GO dependencies
+echo "golang-go golang-go/dashboard boolean false" | debconf-set-selections
+sudo apt-get -y install -qq golang golang-go
+
+# Haskell dependencies TODO
+#sudo apt-get install -qq ghc cabal-install libghc-binary-dev libghc-network-dev libghc-http-dev libghc-hashable-dev libghc-unordered-containers-dev libghc-vector-dev
+#sudo cabal update
+
+# Lua dependencies
+sudo apt-get install -qq lua5.2 lua5.2-dev
+
+# Node.js dependencies
+sudo apt-get install -qq nodejs nodejs-dev npm
+sudo update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/node node /usr/bin/nodejs 10
+
+# CSharp
+sudo apt-get install -qq mono-gmcs mono-devel libmono-system-web2.0-cil
+sudo apt-get install -qq mingw32 mingw32-binutils mingw32-runtime