I have installed Gramps on my laptop and got it to work.
After updating and installing plugins, I got the following error:
The view Graph View did not load and
reported an error. ***No error found, probably error in gpr.py file
***
Looking in the terminal window I found:
Namespace GooCanvas not available
Installing python-pygoocanvas revealed that grapviz also needed to be installed.
After this was done, Gramps works like a chanrm.