NEWBIE: can't get stock quotes

[Dave Peticolas]

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On Wed, 2002-04-17 at 06:34, Ollie Acheson wrote:
> Hi,
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> I have just started using gnucash 1.6.2 (in Redhat 7.2 and kernel
> 2.4.7-10) and have a problem getting stock quotes.
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> I put the stock symbols into the fund accounts and indicated the
> source of quotes as Fidelity. When I pressed the button to update
> stock prices, I got an error message saying unable to download quotes.
> I then tried the "--add-price-quotes" option at the command line to
> see if I could get some more error information, but this was the result:
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> [oacheson@blackhole gnucash]$ gnucash --add-price-quotes owa2000.xac
> gnucash: [M] "book-add-quotes failed"
> gnucash: [M] "book-save failed "1
> gnucash: [E] "Failed to add quotes to ""owa2000.xac"
> [oacheson@blackhole gnucash]$
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> Can someone either interpret this for me or point me to some
> documentation of this feature?

You may not have all the perl libs needed. Have you tried running
update-finance-quote as root?

dave


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