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If you have any ~/.qgis directory from a previous installation of qgis, try remove it.

Have removed ~/.qgis and now Plugin Installer is no longer available as an option within the Manage Plugins dialogue.

You have probably have issues with python, missing one or more libraries. python-qgis maybe?

Thanks, apt-get install'ing that helped (see below for output)

Is python-qgis not an explicit dependency? Should it not have been installed as part of my original installation?

Thanks again, Joseph

joseph@joseph-work:~$ sudo apt-get install python-qgis
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
libqgis1.0.2
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
The following extra packages will be installed:
python-qgis-common
The following packages will be upgraded:
python-qgis python-qgis-common
2 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
Need to get 1161kB of archives.
After this operation, 3310kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
Get: 1 http://ppa.launchpad.net jaunty/main python-qgis 1.2.0-1~jaunty1 [472kB]
Get: 2 http://ppa.launchpad.net jaunty/main python-qgis-common 1.2.0-1~jaunty1 [689kB]
Fetched 1161kB in 1s (768kB/s)
(Reading database ... 204602 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace python-qgis 1.0.2-1~jaunty3 (using .../python-qgis_1.2.0-1~jaunty1_i386.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement python-qgis ...
Preparing to replace python-qgis-common 1.0.2-1~jaunty3 (using .../python-qgis-common_1.2.0-1~jaunty1_all.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement python-qgis-common ...
Setting up python-qgis-common (1.2.0-1~jaunty1) ...

Setting up python-qgis (1.2.0-1~jaunty1) ...

Processing triggers for libc6 ...
ldconfig deferred processing now taking place
joseph@joseph-work:~$

So does it work now and can you close the ticket? I hope the old libraries were the only reason. If not, very strange that the Installer has disappeared from the list after removing the .qgis directory - it sholud be present in a /usr/share/qgis/python/plugins/plugin_installer directory.