Unable to install MLton

[Antonio Eduardo Costa Pereira]

Dear Sir.
I think that I should start this letter by stating that I am 
not very good with computers. However, my profession requires 
that I write computer programs from time to time.  Thus, I  
use SML and Clean, because these two languages are easy to
learn (at least for a person who is a linguist by profession).
By the way, the operational system that I am using is 
Slackware 7.2. Why? Well,  Slackware was the only operational 
system that I succeed in installing, after failing with Windows 98 
(the plug and play did not recognize my network), Red Hat (I was 
not able to install  openwindow, that I need to run Clean),
and a few more. At least, I was able to install Slackware. Then, I 
downloaded MLTon, binaries. I typed the following line from the 
root:

rmp -i  mlton-20000712-2.i386.rpm

Here is what I got:         

        python >= 1.5.1 is needed by mlton-20000712-2
        ld-linux.so.2 is needed by mlton-20000712-2
        libc.so.6 is needed by mlton-20000712-2
        libm.so.6 is needed by mlton-20000712-2
        /bin/sh is needed by mlton-20000712-2
        /usr/bin/env is needed by mlton-20000712-2
        libm.so.6(GLIBC_2.1) is needed by mlton-20000712-2
        libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.1) is needed by mlton-20000712-2
        libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.0) is needed by mlton-20000712-2 


I do not know what is python, but I typed "python" just the same. I 
got: 

Python 1.5.2 (#1, Jul 17 1999, 22:10:16)
Copyright 1991-1995 Stichting Mathematisch Centrum, Amsterdam 

This means that I do have Python, right? I went on:

locate libm.so.6
locate:
/lib/libm.so.6 

To make a long story short, it seems that I have everything that 
MLTon says  I do not have. I tried to run rpm with the nodeps
option. The installation worked fine. However, when I tried to
run MLton, the compiler complained about mmap failure. Any
suggestions?

Eduardo Costa