diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
index 9e335576a1..fce3616d97 100644
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -72,10 +72,20 @@ after_script:
       wget -c "https://github.com/probonopd/linuxdeployqt/releases/download/continuous/linuxdeployqt-continuous-x86_64.AppImage" ;
       chmod a+x linuxdeployqt*.AppImage ;
       export PATH=~/Qt/$QTVER/gcc_64/bin/:${PATH} ;
-      ./linuxdeployqt*.AppImage --appimage-extract ;
       ./linuxdeployqt*.AppImage ./appdir/usr/share/applications/*.desktop -bundle-non-qt-libs ;
       rm ./appdir/usr/lib/libfreetype.so.6 ;
       export PATH=${TRAVIS_BUILD_DIR}/build/squashfs-root/usr/bin/:${PATH} ;
+      
+      echo "Embed newer libstdc++ for distros that don't come with it (ubuntu 14.04)";
+      mkdir -p appdir/usr/optional/ ; mkdir -p appdir/usr/optional/libstdc++/ ;
+      cp /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6 ./appdir/usr/optional/libstdc++/ ;
+      rm ./appdir/AppRun ;
+      wget -c https://github.com/darealshinji/AppImageKit-checkrt/releases/download/continuous/AppRun-patched-x86_64 -O ./appdir/AppRun ;
+      chmod a+x ./appdir/AppRun ;
+      wget -c https://github.com/darealshinji/AppImageKit-checkrt/releases/download/continuous/exec-x86_64.so -O ./appdir/usr/optional/exec.so ;
+      
+      echo "Pacakge it up and send it off" ;
+      ./linuxdeployqt*.AppImage --appimage-extract ;
       ./squashfs-root/usr/bin/appimagetool ${TRAVIS_BUILD_DIR}/build/appdir ;
       find ./appdir -executable -type f -exec ldd {} \; | grep " => /usr" | cut -d " " -f 2-3 | sort | uniq ;
       COMM_TAG="$(git describe --tags $(git rev-list --tags --max-count=1))" ;