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/

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

Using these packages on Mandrake 8.2 is possible, but this requires
several packages from Mandrake 9.0:
   libatk1.0_0
   libgdk_pixbuf2.0_0
   libglib2.0_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 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.

If Pan is crashing freqently, upgrading pango/libpango1.0_0 to 1.0.5 or
later may help.  (This requires additional packages).  See Texstar's
mirrors for packages:
  http://ftp.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/contrib/texstar/apt/Mandrake/RPMS.texstar/
  http://ftp.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/contrib/texstar/linux/distributions/mandrake/9.0/rpms/