diff --git a/Makefile.appimage b/Makefile.appimage
index 9fabb98..c2504bc 100644
--- a/Makefile.appimage
+++ b/Makefile.appimage
@@ -5,8 +5,7 @@ build:
 	@wget -c "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/linuxdeploy/linuxdeploy-plugin-gtk/master/linuxdeploy-plugin-gtk.sh"
 	@chmod a+x linuxdeploy-x86_64.AppImage linuxdeploy-plugin-gtk.sh
 	@unset QTDIR; unset QT_PLUGIN_PATH ; unset LD_LIBRARY_PATH
-	@export VERSION=$(git rev-parse --short HEAD)
-	@./linuxdeploy-x86_64.AppImage --appdir=appdir --plugin gtk --output appimage
+	@VERSION=$(git rev-parse --short HEAD) ./linuxdeploy-x86_64.AppImage --appdir=appdir --plugin gtk --output appimage
 
 upload:
 	@find appdir -executable -type f -exec ldd {} \; | grep " => /usr" | cut -d " " -f 2-3 | sort | uniq