diff --git a/contrib/build-linux/appimage/build.sh b/contrib/build-linux/appimage/build.sh
index e8c2ba74f..e9614128c 100755
--- a/contrib/build-linux/appimage/build.sh
+++ b/contrib/build-linux/appimage/build.sh
@@ -221,8 +221,11 @@ rm -rf "$PYDIR"/site-packages/PyQt5/Qt.so
 # these are deleted as they were not deterministic; and are not needed anyway
 find "$APPDIR" -path '*/__pycache__*' -delete
 rm "$APPDIR"/usr/lib/libsecp256k1.a
+# note that jsonschema-*.dist-info is needed by that package as it uses 'pkg_resources.get_distribution'
+for f in "$PYDIR"/site-packages/jsonschema-*.dist-info; do mv "$f" "$(echo "$f" | sed s/\.dist-info/\.dist-info2/)"; done
 rm -rf "$PYDIR"/site-packages/*.dist-info/
 rm -rf "$PYDIR"/site-packages/*.egg-info/
+for f in "$PYDIR"/site-packages/jsonschema-*.dist-info2; do mv "$f" "$(echo "$f" | sed s/\.dist-info2/\.dist-info/)"; done
 
 
 find -exec touch -h -d '2000-11-11T11:11:11+00:00' {} +