turpial and glances error on openSUSE Leap 42.1

turpial (a Twitter client) doesn't start when started from the Menu - when started in a xterm/console the error is:

:~> turpial
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/turpial", line 5, in 
    from pkg_resources import load_entry_point
ImportError: No module named pkg_resources

Searching the error online shows that: installing python-setuptools which provides python-distribute resolves the issue. 

The package is missing the dependency on python-distribute.

The same is true for glances (python-glances) a monitoring tool. Glances doesn't start and shows the same "ImportError: No module named pkd_resources"


After installing python-distribute though, glances still doesn't start and gives:

 ~> glances
Curses module not found. Glances cannot start in standalone mode.

That can be resolved by installing python-curses.

mail - msmtp

recently I replaced postfix with msmtp and it works like a charm. not much configuration needed, only a msmtprc with a few configuration values set in the file are needed.
A description that helps is at: "Using msmtp as a Lightweight SMTP Client" and of course there's also the manualfor msmtp too.

firefox - URL in address bar doesn't load page

Entering an URL in the Address Bar and hitting 'enter' doesn't load the URL/page start firefox in "Safe Mode" (troubleshoot firefox #firefox -safe-mode now it works. Disabled the "Add-On"s one by one until I found the culprit. In my case it was the Twitter Address Bar Search