diff --git a/AppImage/build-ratarmount-appimage.sh b/AppImage/build-ratarmount-appimage.sh
index f339dba2..21493592 100644
--- a/AppImage/build-ratarmount-appimage.sh
+++ b/AppImage/build-ratarmount-appimage.sh
@@ -3,6 +3,12 @@
 # E.g., run this script inside the manylinux2014 container and mount the whole ratarmount git root:
 #   docker run -v$PWD:/project -it quay.io/pypa/manylinux2014_x86_64 bash
 #   cd /project/AppImage && ./build-ratarmount-appimage.sh
+# Should be built in the same manylinux container as used for the AppImage, or else the libarchive
+# from the surrounding system is mixed with an incompatible liblzma from the Python AppImage, resulting in:
+#     OSError: /tmp/.mount_ratarmlSdCvH/usr/lib/liblzma.so.5: version `XZ_5.2' not found
+#     (required by /tmp/.mount_ratarmlSdCvH/usr/lib/libarchive.so.13)
+# Then again, this error can be fixed by calling linxdeploy explicitly with liblzma.so.
+
 
 function commandExists()
 {
@@ -16,7 +22,8 @@ function installSystemRequirements()
     yum -y install epel-release
     # We need to isntall development dependencies to build Python packages from source and we also need
     # to install libraries such as libarchive in order to copy them into the AppImage.
-    yum install -y fuse fakeroot patchelf fuse-libs libsqlite3x strace desktop-file-utils libzstd-devel libarchive lzop
+    yum install -y fuse fakeroot patchelf fuse-libs libsqlite3x strace desktop-file-utils libzstd-devel \
+        libarchive libarchive-devel lzop
 }
 
 function installAppImageTools()
@@ -88,16 +95,28 @@ function installAppImageSystemLibraries()
     if commandExists repoquery; then
         libraries+=( $( repoquery -l fuse-libs | 'grep' 'lib64.*[.]so' ) )
         libraries+=( $( repoquery -l libarchive | 'grep' 'lib64.*[.]so' ) )
+        libraries+=( $( repoquery -l libarchive-devel | 'grep' 'lib64.*[.]so' ) )
+        libraries+=( $( repoquery -l xz-devel | 'grep' 'lib64.*[.]so' ) )
     elif commandExists dnf; then
         libraries+=( $( dnf repoquery -l fuse-libs | 'grep' 'lib64.*[.]so' ) )
         libraries+=( $( dnf repoquery -l libarchive | 'grep' 'lib64.*[.]so' ) )
+        libraries+=( $( dnf repoquery -l libarchive-devel | 'grep' 'lib64.*[.]so' ) )
+        libraries+=( $( dnf repoquery -l xz-devel | 'grep' 'lib64.*[.]so' ) )
     elif commandExists dpkg; then
         libraries+=( $( dpkg -L libfuse2 | 'grep' '/lib.*[.]so' ) )
-        libraries+=( $( dpkg -L libarchive | 'grep' '/lib.*[.]so' ) )
+        libraries+=( $( dpkg -L libarchive13 | 'grep' '/lib.*[.]so' ) )
+        libraries+=( $( dpkg -L libarchive-dev | 'grep' '/lib.*[.]so' ) )
+        libraries+=( $( dpkg -L liblzma5 | 'grep' '/lib.*[.]so' ) )
     else
         echo -e "\e[31mCannot gather FUSE libs into AppImage without (dnf) repoquery.\e[0m"
     fi
 
+    # For some reason, the simple libarchive.so file without any version suffix is only installed with the development
+    # packages! For yet another reason ctypes.util.find_library does not find libarchive.so.13 if libarchive.so
+    # does not # exist in the AppDir. However, when only libarchive.so.13 exists in the system location, it DOES
+    # find it even when libarchive.so does not exist -.-. It's really weird.
+    # https://github.com/Changaco/python-libarchive-c/issues/128
+
     echo "Bundle libraries:"
     printf '    %s\n' "${libraries[@]}"
 
diff --git a/AppImage/ratarmount-metadata/entrypoint.sh b/AppImage/ratarmount-metadata/entrypoint.sh
index 26559314..42466c03 100644
--- a/AppImage/ratarmount-metadata/entrypoint.sh
+++ b/AppImage/ratarmount-metadata/entrypoint.sh
@@ -3,6 +3,11 @@ export PATH="${APPDIR}/usr/bin/:$PATH"
 
 # The fusepy module directly tries to read this environment variable and uses it.
 export FUSE_LIBRARY_PATH="${APPDIR}/usr/lib/libfuse.so.2"
+# Necessary because ctypes.util.find_library does not find the libarchive.so.13 if libarchive.so is missing.
+# However, this only seems to be a problem with AppImage (LD_LIBRARY_PATH) not with system-installated versions.
+if [[ -f "${APPDIR}/usr/lib/libarchive.so.13" ]]; then
+    export LIBARCHIVE="${APPDIR}/usr/lib/libarchive.so.13"
+fi
 
 # -u is important or else piping the output to other tools and therefore the tests might fail!
 {{ python-executable }} -u -I -m ratarmount "$@"