diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index cee528531cbbdab46c9fc0e76a8dfe543838ce52..20da219a8e21da231be1182ce3205a5bc50df9ab 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -64,6 +64,9 @@ for (const auto& element : elements(gridGeometry.gridView()))
 
 - `update()` functions of grid geometries, which do not receive the `gridView`, are deprecated, use `update(gridView)` instead.
 - `enum class DiscretizationMethod` and associated functions, to be replaced by tags
+- `test_dumux.sh` is deprecated.
+- `compareparameters.sh` is deprecated, use `getparameterlist.py` instead.
+- `replace_property_macros.sh` is removed.
 
 ### New experimental features (possibly subject to backwards-incompatible changes in the future)
 
diff --git a/bin/doc/compareparameters.sh b/bin/doc/compareparameters.sh
index 3b958673534167dc9964355e616d0e8718f24210..3540f923152c4f14c20e0192f305a3cb9ab14acc 100755
--- a/bin/doc/compareparameters.sh
+++ b/bin/doc/compareparameters.sh
@@ -1,5 +1,8 @@
 #!/bin/sh
 
+echo "DeprecationWarning: This script will be removed after 3.5!!!"
+echo "Use instead getparameterlist.py"
+
 # 1. obtain a list new_parameters.csv of all current parameters
 # retrieve all occurrences of GET_PARAM and GET_RUNTIME_PARAM
 find dumux/ -name '*.[ch][ch]' -exec  awk '/getParam</,/;/' {} \; >new_parameters.csv
diff --git a/bin/util/replace_property_macros.sh b/bin/util/replace_property_macros.sh
deleted file mode 100755
index b8f3754ed42b6117ee2aedf9abd7988736175f60..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/bin/util/replace_property_macros.sh
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,52 +0,0 @@
-#! /bin/bash
-
-if [ $# -eq 0 ]
-  then
-    echo "No arguments supplied."
-    echo "Usage: bash ./replace_property_macros.sh file1 [file2 ...]"
-fi
-
-for TMP in $@; do
-
-echo "File: $TMP"
-
-sed -i \
-"
-s/typename[ ]*GET_PROP_TYPE[ ]*(\([^,]*\),[ ]*\([^)]*\))::/typename GetPropType<\1, Properties::\2>::/g;
-s/typename[ ]*GET_PROP_TYPE[ ]*(\([^,]*\),[ ]*\([^)]*\))/GetPropType<\1, Properties::\2>/g;
-s/GET_PROP_TYPE[ ]*(\([^,]*\),[ ]*\([^)]*\))/GetPropType<\1, Properties::\2>/g;
-s/NEW_TYPE_TAG[ ]*(\([^,]*\),[ ]*INHERITS_FROM[ ]*(\([^)]*\)).*/struct TTag::\1 { using InheritsFrom = std::tuple<\2>; };/g;
-s/using InheritsFrom = std::tuple<\([^,]*\),[ ]*\([^>]*\)>/using InheritsFrom = std::tuple<\2, \1>/g;
-" \
-$TMP
-
-gawk -i inplace '/struct TTag::/ && !x {print "// Create new type tags\nnamespace TTag {"; x=1} 1' $TMP
-gawk -i inplace '/struct TTag::/{seen++} seen && !/struct TTag::/{print "} // end namespace TTag"; seen=0} 1' $TMP
-
-sed -i \
-"
-s/struct TTag::/struct /g;
-s/GET_PROP_VALUE[ ]*(\([^,]*\),[ ]*\([^)]*\))/getPropValue<\1, Properties::\2>()/g;
-s/SET_BOOL_PROP[ ]*(\([^,]*\),[ ]*\([^,]*\),[ ]*\([^)]*\))/template<class TypeTag>\nstruct \2<TypeTag, TTag::\1> { static constexpr bool value = \3; }/g;
-s/SET_INT_PROP[ ]*(\([^,]*\),[ ]*\([^,]*\),[ ]*\([^)]*\))/template<class TypeTag>\nstruct \2<TypeTag, TTag::\1> { static constexpr int value = \3; }/g;
-s/SET_TYPE_PROP[ ]*(\([^,]*\),[ ]*\([^,]*\),[ ]*\([^)]*\))/template<class TypeTag>\nstruct \2<TypeTag, TTag::\1> { using type = \3; }/g;
-s/SET_PROP[ ]*(\([^,]*\),[ ]*\([^)]*\))/template<class TypeTag>\nstruct \2<TypeTag, TTag::\1>/g;
-s/NEW_PROP_TAG[ ]*(\([^)]*\))/template<class TypeTag, class MyTypeTag>\nstruct \1 { using type = UndefinedProperty; }/g;
-s/TTAG[ ]*(\([^)]*\))/Properties::TTag::\1/g;
-" \
-$TMP
-
-done
-
-echo "Property macros have been removed."
-echo "Manual tweaking might be necessary, especially if"
-echo ""
-echo "- NEW_TYPE_TAG uses have not been one line after another. In this case,"
-echo "  . remove superfluous lines \"} // end namespace TTag\" and/or"
-echo "  . add additional lines \"namespace TTag {\"."
-echo ""
-echo "- Usages of SET_TYPE_PROP or other macros extend over more than one line."
-echo "  In this case, replace the usages manually."
-echo ""
-echo "- Macros have been used outside of the namespace Dumux and without a"
-echo "  corresponding alias. In this case, prepend things with a \"Dumux::\"."
diff --git a/bin/util/test_dumux.sh b/bin/util/test_dumux.sh
index 2bd3d9dd520d0d2ab30d48a6df05d7f41d4a878f..bfb65cb3fe1e7087f6a86bd26721f550b2200e6b 100644
--- a/bin/util/test_dumux.sh
+++ b/bin/util/test_dumux.sh
@@ -1,6 +1,10 @@
 # Test to see if the download and configuration worked properly
 
-cd DUMUX/dumux/build-cmake/test/porousmediumflow/1p/isothermal
+echo "DeprecationWarning: This script will be removed after 3.5!!!"
+echo "The commands can be found in the handbook and are printed after installation"
+echo "via installdumux.py"
+
+cd dumux/dumux/build-cmake/test/porousmediumflow/1p/isothermal
 make test_1p_tpfa
 ./test_1p_tpfa params.input
 paraview *pvd
diff --git a/doc/handbook/2_quickinstall.tex b/doc/handbook/2_quickinstall.tex
index a941c230617f07fda235a8f7601818a1977c9f2e..67b9bc6b7de5700a3d9bfb9fcbf6ed11ba74fec1 100644
--- a/doc/handbook/2_quickinstall.tex
+++ b/doc/handbook/2_quickinstall.tex
@@ -59,12 +59,4 @@ paraview *pvd
 (green double arrow on top right) to admire the colorful pressure distribution.
 \end{enumerate}
 
-These commands are compiled into \texttt{test\_dumux.sh}, which you can download and run
-from the same directory from which you ran \texttt{installdumux.py}.
-
-\begin{lstlisting}[style=Bash,escapechar=\%]
-$ wget https://git.iws.uni-stuttgart.de/dumux-repositories/dumux/-/raw/releases/%\DumuxVersion%/bin/util/test_dumux.sh
-$ wget sh test_dumux.sh
-\end{lstlisting}
-
 For further information on how to get started with dumux, see section \ref{chp:tutorial}.