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I have installed Qgis on ubuntu. it works fine but I am not getting option to add new plugins only option to manage plugins is available. Please help

underdark
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UPDATE:

Did some digging around on the QGIS site. Apparently you need to install the python-gis package if you want to use the python plugins. 

sudo apt-get install python-qgis

You should now be able to add new plugins :)

If I'm not mistaken, you need to enable the Plugins Installer. Just activate it in Plugins Manager.

R.K.
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This problem also occurs while moving from QGIS 2.2 to the 2.6 under Ubuntu 14.04 and is also solved by installing (or re installing) the package python-qgis.

R.K.
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the world is not flat
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This can also happen if you start QGIS from a Python virtual environment shell.

I had a previously perfectly working QGIS+Python system suddenly stop doing Python. Nothing had changed or upgraded. It was literally working ten minutes ago. Then it wasn't.

Turned out I'd started it from a Python virtual environment, so the python libs needed weren't there. Opened a fresh shell, started QGIS, Python working nicely.

I still occasionally start QGIS from a virtual environment and go "oops".

Spacedman
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I had the same problem on Ubuntu 11.10 (oneiric). To get the python plugin installer back, I uninstalled all qgis packages, added the unstable ubuntu-gis repositories (https://launchpad.net/~ubuntugis/+archive/ubuntugis-unstable):

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntugis/ubuntugis-unstable/ubuntu oneiric main

deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntugis/ubuntugis-unstable/ubuntu oneiric main

and then reinstalled qgis. Hope this works for you.

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