These Pan RPMs are built for Mandrake 9.0, using Mandrake's library
naming conventions.  Mandrake's menu file and icons are included.

They should also work on Mandrake 8.2 and 9.1.

The 'nospell' package has been compiled with spell checking disabled,
and therefore does not require gtkspell (libgtkspell0).

For Mandrake 9.1, all the required libraries should be included in the
distribution, except one:
   libgnet-2.0_0 >= 2.0.4
See the section about Mandrake 9.0 about availiable library RPMs.

Mandrake 9.0 need these library updates:
   libgtkspell0  >= 2.0.2  (Not required for "nospell" package)
   libglib2.0_0  >= 2.2.0
   libgnet-2.0_0 >= 2.0.4
Library updates for these packages can be found on the Pan website:
   http://pan.rebelbase.com/download/extras/gtkspell/MANDRAKE_90/
      (libgtkspell0-2.0.3-1mdk90.i586.rpm)
   http://pan.rebelbase.com/download/extras/glib/MANDRAKE/
      (libglib2.0_0-2.2.2-3mdk.i586.rpm)
   http://pan.rebelbase.com/download/extras/gnet/MANDRAKE/
      (libgnet-2.0_0-2.0.4-1mdk90.i586.rpm)
Those URLs also contain some development packages that aren't required
by Pan, but they must be updated if older versions are installed, so
that they match the libraries.

Mandrake 8.2 requires the same updates as Mandrake 9.0, plus several
packages from Mandrake 9.0:
   libatk1.0_0
   libgdk_pixbuf2.0_0
   libgtk+-x11-2.0_0
   libpango1.0_0
   pango
   libxml2
   libpng3-1.2.4-3mdk  (Better: 1.2.4-3.2mdk from 8.2 updates)
   freetype2-2.0.9-3mdk
   libstdc++5-3.2-1mdk  (Not necessary for the 'nospell' package)

It may be necessary to uninstall the pango 0.24 packages that came with
Mandrake 8.2 first, if they are installed:
  rpm -e pango libpango24
or
  rpm -e pango libpango24 libpango24-devel
The same may apply to some GTK+2 release 1.3 packages. (But *not* 1.2!)

Using Pan with gtkspell on Mandrake 8.2 can be a bit tricky. Probably
either the libgtkspell0-2.0.3 RPM for Mandrake 9.0 (see above) *or* the
one compiled on Mandrake 8.2 will work, but not both.  The latter is
available at
   http://pan.rebelbase.com/download/extras/gtkspell/MANDRAKE_82/
Using the wrong libgtkspell can cause Pan to crash when opening the
compose window.

If Pan is freqently crashing on Mandrake 9.0 or 8.2, upgrading
pango/libpango1.0_0 to 1.0.5 or later may help.  (This may require
additional packages).  Pango 1.0.5 RPMs for Mandrake 9.0/8.2 may be hard
to find, but the following RPM from SuSE should work:
   http://fr2.rpmfind.net//linux/RPM/suse/suse/i386/supplementary/GNOME2/update_for_8.1/base/pango-1.0.5-0.i586.html
Note that this single RPM replaces both pango and libpango1.0_0.