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I am using QGIS v1.6 on Ubuntu 10.10.

When I use the Fetch Python Plugins menu item QGIS crashes. If I run from the terminal with sudo I get the following error:

Segmentation Fault

Does anyone know how to fix this? I have this problem on 2 installs of Ubuntu on 2 different computers.

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I remember this from the qgis-user forum. I don't see a solution, :( ,but maybe a contact and other reading will hook you up. HTH mail-archive.com/qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org/msg05732.html I thought I remembered a thread that respoded with a solution, It seemed like renaming a file and restarting qgis was how to fix, but it has been quite a while and I was only reading. – Brad Nesom Feb 7 '11 at 14:36
Unfortunately non of these things worked. Reinstalling ubuntu had worked though. Maybe it is something to do with the fact I upgraded from 10.04 and didn't do a fresh install. – James S Feb 9 '11 at 8:04

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The python library is probably out of sync with the python library the QGIS plugin was built on. This has been an ongoing issue and can get me more then a little irritated. Here is what I finally did:

Use QGIS from experimental. Add the nightly build to your sources in apt usually fixes this issue, but puts you on the bleeding edge, not recommended for production work. http://www.qgis.org/wiki/Download#Trunk_4 The python version and Qgis version seem to stay in sync this way.

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I have added QGIS the way you suggest from experimental, but this still causes the segmentation error. I cannot get any plugins from the repositories due to this error. – James S Feb 8 '11 at 16:35

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