SPECIAL NOTICE about this release:
Mandrake 9.0 and 8.2 need a glib2 (libglib2.0_0) update to release
2.0.7 or later to avoid header corruption.  Even with a glib2 update
(and on Mandrake 9.1) I observed some apparently non-critical error
messages in the status log, so there may be more libraries that may
benefit from an update.

I haven't checked if there are any suitable binary glib2 RPMs that can
be used with Mandrake 9.0 and 8.2.  Possibly I'll compile some and
contribute them to the Pan website; in that case they should be made
available somewhere on <http://pan.rebelbase.com/download/extras/>.
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These packages 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.

Pan requires gtkspell 2.0.2 or higher (http://gtkspell.sourceforge.net).
A Mandrake 9.0 package (libgtkspell0-2.0.3-1mdk90) is available at
   http://pan.rebelbase.com/download/extras/gtkspell/MANDRAKE_90/

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

Pan also requires gnet 1.1.5 or higher.  A Mandrake 9.0 package
(libgnet1.1-1.1.8-1mdk90) is available at
   http://pan.rebelbase.com/download/extras/gnet/MANDRAKE_90/

Using these packages on Mandrake 8.2 requires several packages from
Mandrake 9.0:
   libatk1.0_0
   libgdk_pixbuf2.0_0
   libglib2.0_0        (See SPECIAL NOTICE above!)
   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 come 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.

On Mandrake 9.1, you should use the libgtkspell0 and libgnet1.1 packages
that come with the distro.

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.