Accessing Usenet News Groups

[GaryT]

Would someone help please.

OS is Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid)

I installed Pan newsreader from the Software Centre, completed the 
Server configuration details, user name and password etc but when 
started, Pan does not access the server. It is supposed to download and 
display a list of available newsgroups.

The same details I use to access the server from a different Linux 
machine (Intrepid) using Agent running on Wine and everything works 
perfectly but that's an entirely different installation. I mention it 
only to confirm that the login details and the IP address are correct.

Reading widely I saw it mentioned in several places that someone in a 
similar situation needed to have the gtk libraries installed. Checking 
with the Synaptic Package manager I find there are 3 lots of GTK2 Theme 
Engine libraries installed and a dozen or more gtk libraries NOT 
installed.  There is also a bunch of GTK2 libraries NOT installed.

Am I heading in the right direction?
If yes, Which libraries SHOULD be installed?
If not, where else could the problem be?

Much appreciated
GaryT