There is a problem on my system when starting QGIS. I get this error. I am running openSuse Tumbleweed 64bit and openSuse 12.3 64bit. Same problem on both systems. 

Couldn't load PyQGIS.
Python support will be disabled.


Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "", line 1, in 
RuntimeError: the sip module implements API v10.0 but the qgis.core module requires API v9.2


Python version:
2.7.3 (default, Apr 14 2012, 08:58:41) [GCC]

QGIS version:
1.8.0-Lisboa 'Lisboa', exported

Python path:
['/usr/share/qgis/python', '/home/evert/.qgis//python', '/home/evert/.qgis//python/plugins', '/usr/share/qgis/python/plugins', '/usr/lib/python27.zip', '/usr/lib64/python2.7', '/usr/lib64/python2.7/plat-linux2', '/usr/lib64/python2.7/lib-tk', '/usr/lib64/python2.7/lib-old', '/usr/lib64/python2.7/lib-dynload', '/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages', '/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/FontTools', '/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/PIL', '/usr/local/lib64/python2.7/site-packages', '/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages', '/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/gtk-2.0', '/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages', '/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/setuptools-0.6c11-py2.7.egg-info', '/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/wx-2.8-gtk2-unicode']


The problem would seem to be the API version implemented in the sip module versus the API version implemented in the qgis.core.

How do I go about fixing the problem once and for all, as it has been a recurring problem on various occasions over the years.

My apologies if this question has been asked and answered here already. Did do a search but could not find this specific problem.