I think I now got maple to work on my AMD64 machine. The trick was to "teach" my machine the ability to run 32-bit binaries also: because the maple licence bits are wrongly 32-bit, not native 64-bit. For the record (and your info and edification): Following https://alioth.debian.org/docman/view.php/30192/21/debian-amd64-howto.html#id292205 installed the ia32-libs package: root@potenza:~# apt-get install ia32-libs ... The following NEW packages will be installed: ia32-libs lib32gcc1 lsb-release ... and then all is sweet. I still maintain that the maple installer is wrong, it should provide 64-bit binaries for all utilities. Please fix for future versions.