as i am always looking forward to new versions and always want to be first to try i tried to get the binary linux 32bit version of 1.7.0 running.
Before the description on the download page worked just fine:
http://ugene.unipro.ru/download.html

just do
rm -rf ~/.config/Unipro/
and
ugene.sh -ui
afterwards - and all worked fine.

Now you seemed to have renamed those files - and as i am just a starting expert i couldn´t figure out what to do to get it running.
No need to hurry - just wanted to let you know. Guess it´s always better and easier just to wait for the launchpad package.

Keep up the great work and don´t forget to take some rest from time to time.

that doesn´t work for me either.
i downloaded the 1.7.0
unpacked the tar.gz
opened the console and went to the just created folder (ugene-1.7.0)
removed the config files by typing rm -rf ~/.config/Unipro/
and typed "ugene" to start the new version

what i got then is this message:
/usr/lib/ugene/ugene: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/ugene/ugene: undefined symbol: _ZN3GB221ScriptRegistryService16staticMetaObjectE

so now i got it working:

i went to /usr/lib/ugene/ and replaced the version available there (1.6.2 form the ppa) with the new files - and stared by ugene -ui