diff --git a/contrib/build-linux/appimage/make_appimage.sh b/contrib/build-linux/appimage/make_appimage.sh
index 2641422b6..ba8e15df3 100755
--- a/contrib/build-linux/appimage/make_appimage.sh
+++ b/contrib/build-linux/appimage/make_appimage.sh
@@ -244,9 +244,11 @@ rm -rf "$PYDIR"/site-packages/PyQt6/Qt.so
 # these are deleted as they were not deterministic; and are not needed anyway
 find "$APPDIR" -path '*/__pycache__*' -delete
 # although note that *.dist-info might be needed by certain packages...
-# e.g. importlib-metadata, see https://gitlab.com/python-devs/importlib_metadata/issues/71
+# e.g. slip10 uses importlib that needs it
+for f in "$PYDIR"/site-packages/slip10-*.dist-info; do mv "$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 "$PYDIR"/site-packages/slip10-*.dist-info2; do mv "$f" "$(echo "$f" | sed s/\.dist-info2/\.dist-info/)"; done
 
 
 find -exec touch -h -d '2000-11-11T11:11:11+00:00' {} +