Finance::Quote under 2.2.6 Not working?
David T.
sunfish62 at yahoo.com
Wed Sep 10 01:24:13 EDT 2008
See below...
--- On Tue, 9/9/08, David Reiser <dbreiser at earthlink.net> wrote:
> From: David Reiser <dbreiser at earthlink.net>
> Subject: Re: Finance::Quote under 2.2.6 Not working?
> To: sunfish62 at yahoo.com
> Cc: "devel gnucash" <gnucash-devel at gnucash.org>
> Date: Tuesday, September 9, 2008, 6:38 PM
> On Sep 9, 2008, at 4:05 PM, David T. wrote:
>
> > I have been unable to get quotes in GC for a while now
> (since I
> > upgraded to 2.2.6?); clicking the Get Quotes button
> yields an
> > hourglass and hangs and my only recourse is to kill
> the process. I
> > am running GC 2.2.6 on an IntelMac with Leopard 10.5.4
> and x-quartz
> > 2.2.3.
> >
> > Any help is welcome.
> >
> > David
>
>
> Hmm. Works for me. How did you install gnucash and/or
> update?
Installed gnucash2 a while back using Fink. Ran fink update gnucash2 to update to 2.2.6
> Did you
> update x-quartz before or after updating gnucash? (I
> don't think
> xquartz is the problem, but...)
>
I don't recall which one came before the other.
> What happens if you type:
>
> gnc-fq-dump yahoo AAPL
>
> in a terminal window?
Finance::Quote fields Gnucash uses:
symbol: AAPL <=== required
date: 00/00/2000 <=== required
currency: USD <=== required
last: 151.68 <=\
nav: <=== one of these
price: 151.68 <=/
timezone: <=== optional
>
> What quote source are you trying to use?
Whatever Gnucash/F::Q has chosen (I assume yahoo.com)
>
> Have you knowingly updated any of your perl setup lately?
Not knowingly. ;)
>
> When you start gnucash, what does the terminal say about
> finding
> Finance-Quote?
bash-3.2$ gnucash
gnc.bin-Message: main: binreloc relocation support was disabled at configure time.
Found Finance::Quote version 1.13
>
> Dave
> --
> David Reiser
> dbreiser at earthlink.net
I'm pretty sure that the Get Quotes button would be greyed out if F::Q weren't found to be working. This hourglass business is new to me.
David
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