I installed the required package on my Fedora Core 5. It is libupnp. I was getting the same errors a Menion. I looked in /usr/lib, and noticed in fact the files do not exist. There are libixml.so.2 and libixml.so.2.0.2, but no libixml.so. I symlinked it. Then, it complained about libupnp.so, and I did the same (symlink it). After that, aMule would simply crash and would not start. Only solution was to remove the symlinks, start aMule, and uncheck the support for UPnP. Both, SVN from August 20th, and from October 23rd, crash the same.
Thanks!