Well, the same thing (see geocode post) happened with the evoamazon plugin--I got a php error when I tried to install it, and had to delete it from my plugins folder before I could use the installer screen again. (I then installed a half dozen plugins successfully--so it doesn't seem to be an installer or setup problem).

Here are lines 116-118 of _evoamazon.php (since 117--the problem line--is SO short):

$amazon = new Zend_Service_Amazon('0338J3P5B24W4AZ77RG2');
try {
$this->results = $amazon->itemSearch(array(

Instructions say (1) download & unzip (2) upload (3) in global settings>plugins, install. So while this needs some code info from Amazon to complete its functionality, I'm hung up at a stage before that is possible.

The problem line, 117, is just "try {"

?????