I updated the plugin_installer a few days ago (6/21), after getting the notification through QGIS.  Now it won&#39;t load and kicks out a python error.  This is QGIS 1.4 from svn on Ubuntu 8.04 64bit.  Any help appreciated.  <div>
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<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;"><span style=" color:#ff0000;">Couldn&#39;t load plugin plugin_installer due an error when calling its classFactory() method</span><br>
<br>Traceback (most recent call last):<br>  File &quot;/usr/local/share/qgis/python/qgis/utils.py&quot;, line 141, in startPlugin<br>    plugins[packageName] = package.classFactory(iface)<br>  File &quot;/home/jamie/.qgis//python/plugins/plugin_installer/__init__.py&quot;, line 33, in classFactory<br>
    from installer_plugin import InstallerPlugin<br>  File &quot;/usr/local/buildtools/current/sitecustomize/sitecustomize.py&quot;, line 202, in SetupPathsAndImport<br>    return real_import(name, globals, locals, fromlist, level)<br>
  File &quot;/home/jamie/.qgis//python/plugins/plugin_installer/installer_plugin.py&quot;, line 20, in <br>    from installer_gui import *<br>  File &quot;/usr/local/buildtools/current/sitecustomize/sitecustomize.py&quot;, line 202, in SetupPathsAndImport<br>
    return real_import(name, globals, locals, fromlist, level)<br>EOFError: EOF read where object expected<br><br>Python version:<br>2.5.2 (r252:60911, Jan 20 2010, 23:30:56) <br>[GCC 4.2.4 (Ubuntu 4.2.4-1ubuntu3)]<br><br>
Python path: [&#39;/usr/local/share/qgis/python&#39;, &#39;/home/jamie/.qgis//python&#39;, &#39;/home/jamie/.qgis//python/plugins&#39;, &#39;/usr/local/share/qgis/python/plugins&#39;, &#39;/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/GDAL-1.7.2-py2.5-linux-x86_64.egg&#39;, &#39;/usr/local/buildtools/current/sitecustomize&#39;, &#39;/usr/lib/python25.zip&#39;, &#39;/usr/lib/python2.5&#39;, &#39;/usr/lib/python2.5/plat-linux2&#39;, &#39;/usr/lib/python2.5/lib-tk&#39;, &#39;/usr/lib/python2.5/lib-dynload&#39;, &#39;/usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages&#39;, &#39;/usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/geos&#39;, &#39;/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages&#39;, &#39;/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/Numeric&#39;, &#39;/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/PIL&#39;, &#39;/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/gst-0.10&#39;, &#39;/var/lib/python-support/python2.5&#39;, &#39;/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/gtk-2.0&#39;, &#39;/var/lib/python-support/python2.5/gtk-2.0&#39;, &#39;/var/lib/python-support/python2.5/pyinotify&#39;, &#39;/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/wx-2.8-gtk2-unicode&#39;, &#39;/usr/local/share/qgis/python/plugins/fTools/tools&#39;]</p>
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