it took some time, a little help by this forum and the excellent maplesoft-support, but here is how it worked on my SuSE 10.1: As root: -Create a directory and copy your installation files into it, i.e. from the delivered CD -The trick is to edit the installer script with binary mode vim (using the -b flag: vim -b LinuxInstaller.bin) -Then scroll down to the first instance of "export LD_ASSUME_KERNEL" and replace the 'e' in 'export' with '#'. This comments out the line and evidently leaves the installer size intact so those compression errors are bypassed -Save and quit the file As your maple-user: