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I just upgraded to qgis 2.16.1 on Ubuntu 16.04 and received the following error: Python error: Couldn't load plugin MetaSearch due to an error when calling its classFactory() method See message log (Python Error) for more details.

The error log has:
2016-08-02T20:59:24 1 Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/qgis/utils.py", line 333, in startPlugin
plugins[packageName] = package.classFactory(iface)
File "/usr/share/qgis/python/plugins/MetaSearch/__init__.py", line 29, in classFactory
from MetaSearch.plugin import MetaSearchPlugin
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/qgis/utils.py", line 607, in _import
mod = _builtin_import(name, globals, locals, fromlist, level)
File "/usr/share/qgis/python/plugins/MetaSearch/plugin.py", line 33, in <module>
from MetaSearch.dialogs.maindialog import MetaSearchDialog
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/qgis/utils.py", line 607, in _import
mod = _builtin_import(name, globals, locals, fromlist, level)
File "/usr/share/qgis/python/plugins/MetaSearch/dialogs/maindialog.py", line 43, in <module>
from owslib.csw import CatalogueServiceWeb
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/qgis/utils.py", line 607, in _import
mod = _builtin_import(name, globals, locals, fromlist, level)
File "/usr/share/qgis/python/owslib/csw.py", line 27, in <module>
from owslib.util import OrderedDict
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/qgis/utils.py", line 607, in _import
mod = _builtin_import(name, globals, locals, fromlist, level)
File "/usr/share/qgis/python/owslib/util.py", line 35, in <module>
import requests
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/qgis/utils.py", line 607, in _import
mod = _builtin_import(name, globals, locals, fromlist, level)
ImportError: No module named requests

I'm using the following repos:
deb http://qgis.org/ubuntugis xenial main
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntugis/ubuntugis-unstable/ubuntu xenial main