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I ran into this error recently, even though the code of the plugin has not been touched for a while. What helped me was to clean the .ros folder, it seemed that it contained some corrupt temporary data. Use the following command to do that (but first reassure yourself you do not need any of the contained data):

rm -rf ~/.ros/*

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