[GIS] Python support with QGIS 2.4 on Ubuntu 14.04

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I recently updated my Ubuntu system to version 14.04. I added the sources and installed QGIS as per the directions on the QGIS website. Everything looks good, except for I do not have all the available plugins listed that I do on my windows installation. I haven't been able to recreate it again in order to take a screen capture, but I received an error that there is not python support.

I have not been able to find much through we searches on the topic. So, does anyone know of a way to install Python support for QGIS Ubuntu? Or is this likely a bug related to 2.4's relative newness?

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It worked for me with a clean install of QGIS 2.2 from ubuntugis unstable, and update to QGIS 2.4.

If you tried both methods you might have mixed packages. Make sure you have removed all packages from the qgis.org site, and remove qgis.org from the sources list and/or the Software Center.

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The package list notes:

Package: libqgis2.2.0
Source: qgis
Version: 2.2.0-3+trusty1
Architecture: amd64

which is not what your listing says. So either the package is broken, or your installation failed.

The package files are available at the QGis web site.

A precise package might not run on trusty.

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The installation error seems to come from libspatialite5. There are two versions available for trusty:

4.1.1-5ubuntu1 from the main ubuntu repo. It depends on libgeos-c1 and libgdal1h, and is used by qgis.org/debian
4.1.1-5ubuntu2 from ubuntugis ppa. It is compiled against libgeos-c1v5 and libgdal20, and is used by qgis.org/ubuntugis.

Unfortunately, the libspatialite dependencies are not detected by the qgis packages.

You have to decide which path to install, and avoid mixing packages from both.

A clean install on a fresh Ubuntu inside a Virtual Box seems to solve the problem. On the host system, cleaning the system according to https://askubuntu.com/questions/231562/what-is-the-difference-between-apt-get-purge-and-apt-get-remove might solve the issue.

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