SUSE 10.1 Software Management

[cgc101]

Hi, I have just installed SUSE Linux 10.1, in YaST, under Software, the software manager icon does not respond to my clicking, can anyone advise what happen?

Thanks
cgc101

[bigtomrodney]

I've seen this problem once before, I think there was a file lock or some bad temporary files. Open a terminal such as konsole or gnome-terminal and run the following commands

su - //enter password when prompted
yast

You can navigate around using the tab key and enter. Just run this way once and it should be okay afterwards. If you are still having problems please post back.

[bryansmith]

If you are just looking to install a piece of software, try (as root):

yast -i x

Replaced x with the program name.

Bryan

[cgc101]

Hi bigtomrodney, thanks for your advice, I tried that but the result remains the same, when enter on "software management", it simply does not respond......

[c0r3]

hey, 1st srry for hijacking your post man, well i have SuSE10.1 and got the same problem i've tryed what bigtomrodney and bryansmith said but i get the same message for both:

warning: the ncurses frontend is installed but does not work
You need to install yast2-ncurses to use the YaST2 text mode interfac

if there is any information
any info will be welcome, by the way if there is another command for me to be able to install 'yast2-ncurses' will be great! thanks.

[bigtomrodney]

cgc101, Do you get that from both software management in yast and yast2? yast is the text based version, yast2 having a full GUI interface.

c0r3 - Go to your install CDs and browse them looking for that package - something like yast2-ncurses-2.13.27-3.rpm. Just install it manually either by right clicking on it, or using the command line as root

rpm -Uvh /path/to/rpm/file/yast2-ncurses-2.13.27-3.rpm

[cgc101]

bigtomrodney, I guess by yast you mean the one which I executed via the terminal or console, and yast2 is the one via the graphical interface which are activated through the green icon at the right bottom corner, right? well, both did not work......

[c0r3]

bigtomrodney, I guess by yast you mean the one which I executed via the terminal or console, and yast2 is the one via the graphical interface which are activated through the green icon at the right bottom corner, right? well, both did not work......

Yes you're right, did you receive any messages when you tried through the konsole?

i received an error message when i tried to install the packege file: yast2-ncurses-2.13.27-3.i586

error: Failed dependencies:
libzypp.so.0 is needed by yast2-ncurses-2.13.27-3.i586

Does that mean i have to install the libzypp Packages?
well i tried anyways
Here are the results:
(1)
c0r3:/media/SU1010_001/suse/i586 # rpm -Uvh libzypp-0.0.8-154.i586.rpm
Preparing... ########################################### [100%]
package libzypp-1.1.0-1.11 (which is newer than libzypp-0.0.8-154) is already installed
c0r3:/media/SU1010_001/suse/i586 #
never mind about that one.
(2)
c0r3:/media/SU1010_001/suse/i586 # rpm -Uvh libzypp-devel-0.0.8-154.i586.rpm
error: Failed dependencies:
libxml2-devel is needed by libzypp-devel-0.0.8-154.i586
curl-devel is needed by libzypp-devel-0.0.8-154.i586
openssl-devel is needed by libzypp-devel-0.0.8-154.i586
rpm-devel is needed by libzypp-devel-0.0.8-154.i586
zlib-devel is needed by libzypp-devel-0.0.8-154.i586
e2fsprogs-devel is needed by libzypp-devel-0.0.8-154.i586
popt-devel is needed by libzypp-devel-0.0.8-154.i586
dbus-1-devel is needed by libzypp-devel-0.0.8-154.i586
glib2-devel is needed by libzypp-devel-0.0.8-154.i586
hal-devel is needed by libzypp-devel-0.0.8-154.i586
boost-devel is needed by libzypp-devel-0.0.8-154.i586
libstdc++-devel is needed by libzypp-devel-0.0.8-154.i586
c0r3:/media/SU1010_001/suse/i586 #
(3)
c0r3:/media/SU1010_001/suse/i586 # rpm -Uvh libzypp-zmd-backend-7.1.1.0-40.i586.rpm
error: Failed dependencies:
libzypp.so.0 is needed by libzypp-zmd-backend-7.1.1.0-40.i586
c0r3:/media/SU1010_001/suse/i586 #
am I using the right command to try install them?

also here is some more info:
this message was displayed when i try to run the software management:

c0r3:/media/SU1010_001/suse/i586 # yast2
Command: /sbin/yast2 sw_single &
Error loading language plugin /usr/lib/YaST2/plugin/libpy2lang_perl.so: libzypp.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
No such client module sw_single

at this stage im thinking about re-installing linux
any help at all will be welcome, thank you.

[bigtomrodney]

c0r3 you can use the --force option to force it to install if you don't want to go straight to a reinstall, then fix up dependencies if you can get YaST running.


cgc101 is there any type of error at all? If you try Bryan's method of going straight to the installer (yast -i) do you get any error there?

[cgc101]

Hi all, originally, I installed 10.1 with KDE, and I decided to give it a try to reinstall the 10.1 but with Gnome, guess what, the problem is solved!! I do not understand what was the problem with KDE, but certainly, with the Gnome, everything is working fine.
Thanks to all of you for helping.