libslang.so.1 there... system says no

I did a deliberate search for libslang.so.1 & found a symlink pointing to libslang-1.4.9 which I did not create. Yet, YaST says it isn't there, APT wants to eradicate all vestigates of the newly-installed xine & all its support files/deps. What the devil!? -- ...CH SuSE 9 Works Linux user# 313696 Linux box# 199365