Enabling Financial Quote

[John Ralls]

On Feb 24, 2013, at 11:04 AM, Elizabeth Pandolfo Briggs <pandolfo at ninthwonder.com> wrote:

> Hi. I've upgraded my Mac to Mountain Lion and Gnucash to version 2.4.11, and I've had the same problem others have reported with Financial Quotes not working. However, when I follow the directions to install Financial Quotes, I get an error message in Terminal (below in detail) and the installation fails. I'm not a programmer, and I don't really understand what the problem is. Help!
> 
> Thanks,
> Elizabeth Briggs
> 
> 
> New urllist
> ftp://mirrors.ustc.edu.cn/CPAN/
> ftp://cpan.sarang.net/CPAN/
> ftp://ftp.stu.edu.tw/CPAN/
> ftp://ftp.kddilabs.jp/CPAN/
> ftp://cpan.mirror.cdnetworks.com/CPAN/
> 
> Please remember to call 'o conf commit' to make the config permanent!
> Going to read '/Users/pandolfo/.cpan/Metadata'
>  Database was generated on Thu, 15 Dec 2011 11:27:17 GMT
> Fetching with LWP:
> ftp://mirrors.ustc.edu.cn/CPAN/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz
> LWP failed with code[500] message[]
> Fetching with Net::FTP:
> ftp://mirrors.ustc.edu.cn/CPAN/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz
>  Could not connect to host 'mirrors.ustc.edu.cn' with Net::FTP
> Fetching with Net::FTP
> ftp://mirrors.ustc.edu.cn/CPAN/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz.gz
>  Could not connect to host 'mirrors.ustc.edu.cn' with Net::FTP
> Warning: no success downloading '/Users/pandolfo/.cpan/sources/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz.tmp6980'. Giving up on it.
> Fetching with LWP:
> ftp://cpan.sarang.net/CPAN/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz
> LWP failed with code[500] message[LWP::Protocol::MyFTP: connect: Connection refused]
> Fetching with Net::FTP:
> ftp://cpan.sarang.net/CPAN/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz
>  Could not connect to host 'cpan.sarang.net' with Net::FTP
> Fetching with Net::FTP
> ftp://cpan.sarang.net/CPAN/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz.gz
>  Could not connect to host 'cpan.sarang.net' with Net::FTP
> Warning: no success downloading '/Users/pandolfo/.cpan/sources/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz.tmp6980'. Giving up on it.
> Fetching with LWP:
> ftp://ftp.stu.edu.tw/CPAN/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz
> LWP failed with code[500] message[LWP::Protocol::MyFTP: connect: Connection refused]
> Fetching with Net::FTP:
> ftp://ftp.stu.edu.tw/CPAN/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz
>  Could not connect to host 'ftp.stu.edu.tw' with Net::FTP
> Fetching with Net::FTP
> ftp://ftp.stu.edu.tw/CPAN/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz.gz
>  Could not connect to host 'ftp.stu.edu.tw' with Net::FTP
> Warning: no success downloading '/Users/pandolfo/.cpan/sources/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz.tmp6980'. Giving up on it.
> Fetching with LWP:
> ftp://ftp.kddilabs.jp/CPAN/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz
> LWP failed with code[500] message[LWP::Protocol::MyFTP: connect: Connection refused]
> Fetching with Net::FTP:
> ftp://ftp.kddilabs.jp/CPAN/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz
>  Could not connect to host 'ftp.kddilabs.jp' with Net::FTP
> Fetching with Net::FTP
> ftp://ftp.kddilabs.jp/CPAN/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz.gz
>  Could not connect to host 'ftp.kddilabs.jp' with Net::FTP
> Warning: no success downloading '/Users/pandolfo/.cpan/sources/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz.tmp6980'. Giving up on it.
> Fetching with LWP:
> ftp://cpan.mirror.cdnetworks.com/CPAN/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz
> LWP failed with code[500] message[LWP::Protocol::MyFTP: connect: Connection refused]
> Fetching with Net::FTP:
> ftp://cpan.mirror.cdnetworks.com/CPAN/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz
>  Could not connect to host 'cpan.mirror.cdnetworks.com' with Net::FTP
> Fetching with Net::FTP
> ftp://cpan.mirror.cdnetworks.com/CPAN/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz.gz
>  Could not connect to host 'cpan.mirror.cdnetworks.com' with Net::FTP
> Warning: no success downloading '/Users/pandolfo/.cpan/sources/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz.tmp6980'. Giving up on it.
> Fetching with LWP:
> ftp://mirrors.ustc.edu.cn/CPAN/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz
> LWP failed with code[500] message[LWP::Protocol::MyFTP: connect: Connection refused]
> Fetching with Net::FTP:
> ftp://mirrors.ustc.edu.cn/CPAN/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz
>  Could not connect to host 'mirrors.ustc.edu.cn' with Net::FTP
> Fetching with Net::FTP
> ftp://mirrors.ustc.edu.cn/CPAN/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz.gz
>  Could not connect to host 'mirrors.ustc.edu.cn' with Net::FTP
> Warning: no success downloading '/Users/pandolfo/.cpan/sources/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz.tmp6980'. Giving up on it.
> Fetching with LWP:
> ftp://cpan.sarang.net/CPAN/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz
> LWP failed with code[500] message[LWP::Protocol::MyFTP: connect: Connection refused]
> Fetching with Net::FTP:
> ftp://cpan.sarang.net/CPAN/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz
>  Could not connect to host 'cpan.sarang.net' with Net::FTP
> Fetching with Net::FTP
> ftp://cpan.sarang.net/CPAN/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz.gz
>  Could not connect to host 'cpan.sarang.net' with Net::FTP
> Warning: no success downloading '/Users/pandolfo/.cpan/sources/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz.tmp6980'. Giving up on it.
> Fetching with LWP:
> ftp://ftp.stu.edu.tw/CPAN/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz
> LWP failed with code[500] message[LWP::Protocol::MyFTP: connect: Connection refused]
> Fetching with Net::FTP:
> ftp://ftp.stu.edu.tw/CPAN/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz
>  Could not connect to host 'ftp.stu.edu.tw' with Net::FTP
> Fetching with Net::FTP
> ftp://ftp.stu.edu.tw/CPAN/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz.gz
>  Could not connect to host 'ftp.stu.edu.tw' with Net::FTP
> Warning: no success downloading '/Users/pandolfo/.cpan/sources/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz.tmp6980'. Giving up on it.
> Fetching with LWP:
> ftp://ftp.kddilabs.jp/CPAN/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz
> LWP failed with code[500] message[LWP::Protocol::MyFTP: connect: Connection refused]
> Fetching with Net::FTP:
> ftp://ftp.kddilabs.jp/CPAN/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz
>  Could not connect to host 'ftp.kddilabs.jp' with Net::FTP
> Fetching with Net::FTP
> ftp://ftp.kddilabs.jp/CPAN/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz.gz
>  Could not connect to host 'ftp.kddilabs.jp' with Net::FTP
> Warning: no success downloading '/Users/pandolfo/.cpan/sources/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz.tmp6980'. Giving up on it.
> Fetching with LWP:
> ftp://cpan.mirror.cdnetworks.com/CPAN/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz
> LWP failed with code[500] message[LWP::Protocol::MyFTP: connect: Connection refused]
> Fetching with Net::FTP:
> ftp://cpan.mirror.cdnetworks.com/CPAN/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz
>  Could not connect to host 'cpan.mirror.cdnetworks.com' with Net::FTP
> Fetching with Net::FTP
> ftp://cpan.mirror.cdnetworks.com/CPAN/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz.gz
>  Could not connect to host 'cpan.mirror.cdnetworks.com' with Net::FTP
> Warning: no success downloading '/Users/pandolfo/.cpan/sources/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz.tmp6980'. Giving up on it.
> Warning: no success downloading '/Users/pandolfo/.cpan/sources/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz.tmp6980'. Giving up on it.
> No external ftp command available
> 
> Warning: no success downloading '/Users/pandolfo/.cpan/sources/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz.tmp6980'. Giving up on it.
> No external ftp command available
> 
> Please check, if the URLs I found in your configuration file
> (ftp://mirrors.ustc.edu.cn/CPAN/, ftp://cpan.sarang.net/CPAN/,
> ftp://ftp.stu.edu.tw/CPAN/, ftp://ftp.kddilabs.jp/CPAN/,
> ftp://cpan.mirror.cdnetworks.com/CPAN/) are valid. The urllist can be
> edited. E.g. with 'o conf urllist push ftp://myurl/'
> 
> Could not fetch authors/01mailrc.txt.gz


That's pretty strange. All of those URLs are valid, I just checked them. I suppose it's possible you happened to try just as CPAN was pushing an update to the mirrors and that caused the failure. You could try again and see if you get the same errors.

On the other hand, the message "No external ftp command available" seems odd as well. If you type

  which ftp

at a Terminal prompt, does it respond "/usr/bin/ftp"?

Regards,
John Ralls