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 have been compiled with spell checking disabled,
and therefore do 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, including:
  libatk1.0_0
  libgdk_pixbuf2.0_0
  libglib2.0_0
  libgtk+-x11-2.0_0
  libpango1.0_0
  pango
  libxml2

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/