After Playing around, You can install maple 11 on Fedora 8 with the following inelegant solution (still waiting far a patch java guys!): 1. Run the installation binary as you normally would. 2. A list of messages appear. Just after the message 'unpacking jre' flash on the screen, hit Ctrl-Z to stop the process. 3. Go to your temporary directory (/tmp) and look for a directory named intall.dir.(some number). These are the temporary files used by the maple installer. 4. Navigate to ./Linux/lib/i386/xawt/ in this temporary directory 5. Patch the library file with $sed -i 's/XINERAMA/FAKEEXTN/g' libmawt.so 6. Resume the installer binary with bg. 7. Installation should now proceed normally. Pincololo