I deleted the Views 2.4.1, and Layouts 2.0.3.
Then installed Views 2.5-b3 and Layouts 2.1-b4. Both these betas installed and this time they activated. But, when I tried to work with a template and a layout I got "500 errors" and was not able to go any further. Here is the debug info:
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