The path for addons is different for 2.76, after searching my filesystem this is the location I found for my addons directory
@@ -43,7 +43,11 @@ By default, this should look like:
For Ubuntu users who installed Blender 2.68 via apt-get, this is the location:
/usr/lib/blender/scripts/addons
-
+
+For Ubuntu users who installed Blender 2.7x via apt-get, this is the location:
+ /usr/share/blender/scripts/addons
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