NEWBIE: can't get stock quotes

[Ollie Acheson]

Yes, I did that. It seemed to go successfully to completion.

Thanks,

Ollie


On Wed, Apr 17, 2002 at 11:31:12AM -0700, Dave Peticolas wrote:
> On Wed, 2002-04-17 at 06:34, Ollie Acheson wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > 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.
> > 
> > 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:
> > 
> > [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]$
> > 
> > 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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