Hi folks!
Recently the Software management module (or any other module) in Yast stopped working. I can open the Yast control center, but when I click on the Software mgt module, the mouse pointer shows that it is “thinking” and then stops as if nothing happened.
When I start Yast in a console, the same thing happens. I get to the Yast control center but can’t open the software mgt module. I get a error method saying:
UI Syntax Error
Couldn’t load plug-in ncurses-pkg. Check the log file!
(I don’t know where to find or how to open the log file. If you can point me how to find the log file, I’ll check what it says.)
I believe yast broke down, when I unistalled some packages that I thought where orphaned. The problem persists even after having updated my packages with “zypper up”. When Yast was included in one of the updates, I got a message saying that some packages were not updated because they couldn’t be found on the system.
What can I do? Is there zypper command to make Yast “heal”?
This will hopefully help:
sudo zypper in -f libyui-qt-pkg7 libyui-ncurses-pkg7
Thanks! When I try it, I get the following result:
Retrieving repository 'TW Update Repository' metadata .....................................................................................................[done]
Building repository 'TW Update Repository' cache ..........................................................................................................[done]
Retrieving repository 'Kernel:stable' metadata ............................................................................................................[done]
Building repository 'Kernel:stable' cache .................................................................................................................[done]
Retrieving repository 'Packman Repository' metadata .......................................................................................................[done]
Building repository 'Packman Repository' cache ............................................................................................................[done]
Loading repository data...
Reading installed packages...
Forcing installation of 'libyui-ncurses-pkg7-2.48.1-1.1.x86_64' from repository 'TW Main Repository (OSS)'.
Forcing installation of 'libyui-qt-pkg7-2.45.5-1.1.x86_64' from repository 'TW Main Repository (OSS)'.
Resolving package dependencies...
2 Problems:
Problem: libyui-ncurses-pkg7-2.48.1-1.1.x86_64 requires libzypp.so.1514()(64bit), but this requirement cannot be provided
Problem: libyui-qt-pkg7-2.45.5-1.1.x86_64 requires libzypp.so.1514()(64bit), but this requirement cannot be provided
Problem: libyui-ncurses-pkg7-2.48.1-1.1.x86_64 requires libzypp.so.1514()(64bit), but this requirement cannot be provided
uninstallable providers: libzypp-15.17.1-1.1.x86_64[TW_Main_Repository_(OSS)]
Solution 1: deinstallation of libyui-ncurses-pkg6-2.47.0-1.3.x86_64
Solution 2: do not install libyui-ncurses-pkg7-2.48.1-1.1.x86_64
Solution 3: break libyui-ncurses-pkg7-2.48.1-1.1.x86_64 by ignoring some of its dependencies
What should I choose?
I went ahead with number one, and now I got a working Yast. Problem solved 
Thank you Wolfi323!!