I installed Leap 42.1 / GNOME version today from the DVD.
It is a clean install
When i tried to launch software manager i got qt version of yast and not the gtk version.
I had the same problem on 13.2 too and then i saw the below post and installed libyui-gtk6 and libyui-gtk-pkg6 and then i could get back gtk version of yast software manager.
https://forums.opensuse.org/showthread.php/501587-GTK-software-manager-gone-for-13-2?p=2669167#post2669167
I couldn’t do something similar in LEAP 42.1 as the standard repos (Oss,NonOss,update,Non-oss update) donot have the relevant packages
Kindly advice.
The GTK version has been dropped over a year ago because nobody cared about fixing the bugs that got reported.
Oops, any chance it may work again in 42.2 ?
Yes: volunteer to maintain it, or find somebody who does.
Although it probably has to be adapted to changes in YaST since then too…