diff --git a/contrib/build-linux/appimage/build.sh b/contrib/build-linux/appimage/build.sh
index 4afc39536..64ff0938b 100755
--- a/contrib/build-linux/appimage/build.sh
+++ b/contrib/build-linux/appimage/build.sh
@@ -220,6 +220,7 @@ 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
 rm -rf "$PYDIR"/site-packages/*.dist-info/
 rm -rf "$PYDIR"/site-packages/*.egg-info/