diff --git a/tools/linux_packaging/build b/tools/linux_packaging/build
index 8d1c44ba36..73ecdbec3c 100755
--- a/tools/linux_packaging/build
+++ b/tools/linux_packaging/build
@@ -634,6 +634,17 @@ elif test x$STRIP = xsome ; then
 fi
 find $APPLIB/ -name "*.so*" -print0 | xargs -0 chmod a+rx
 
+# Remove ABI suffix, symlink *.so.
+# This fixes plugins that dynamically open libs.
+# e.g. JUCE option to lazily loading libcurl.so
+(
+cd $APPLIB/
+for lib in *.so.[0-9]*; do
+	link=$(echo $lib | sed 's/\.[0-9]*$//')
+  ln -s $lib $link;
+done
+)
+
 echo "Copying other stuff to $APPDIR  ..."
 
 # these are all generated by waf