I had a closer look at the flickr failure, and the flickr plugin need python-flickrapi version 2, while version 1.2 is in Debian at the moment. This code in flickr.py fail:
flickr = flickrapi.FlickrAPI(self.options_string['hidden_api_key'],
self.options_string['hidden_api_secret'],
cache=False, store_token=False)
flickr.get_request_token(oauth_callback='oob')
The get_request_token() method do not exist in version 1.2
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Happy hacking
Petter Reinholdtsen

