1st make sure you make the maxcoin.conf file in the Maxcoin directory and put all the nodes you can find in it. Then, even though the guide says to qmake and make from the MaxCoin directory, you have to do it in the src directory. At least that's what worked for me.
Thanks for your response. However, the problem is that the executable will not run at all, apparently because of missing dependencies.
Your ref to qmake - relates to something other than the wallet? maybe to compile? My understanding is that the wallets for 32 and 64bit linux are not offered for compilation, but only as binaries(?)
eg
./maxcoind
or for gui
./maxcoin-qt
etc etc
when these executables are correctly invoked, I get errors, mostly referencing (what seems to be) a berkeley database .so however, even when the .so file is apparently available, the errors persist.
Thoughts?