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Derek Atkins warlord at MIT.EDU
Mon Jul 7 17:34:19 CDT 2003


Jon Cooper <jon_cooper at ntlworld.com> writes:

> Umm 1.8.4
> I did have a lot of trouble getting GnuCash to work compile errors etc.
> I eventually found .rpm that I could get to work from user-bin-? 
> help files don't appear to be installed either could this be the problem an 
> incomplete distribution?

Unless you grabbed Red Hat 9's RPM, the docs are part of the gnucash-docs
package (they are shipped separately)

> Jon

-derek

> On Monday 07 July 2003 21:06, you wrote:
> > Uh, what version of gnucash do you have installed?  "dump-finance-quote"
> > is distributed with gnucash, but it wasn't in a couple of the early
> > versions.  If you are not running 1.8.4 you should upgrade.
> >
> > -derek
> >
> > Jon Cooper <jon_cooper at ntlworld.com> writes:
> > >  I'm sorry I don't understand how to :
> > >
> > > run dump-finance-quote
> > >
> > > I have tried it from Run Command... when nothing appears to happen and I
> > > have tried it from a Console with run ->bash: run: command not found
> > > and without ->bash: dump-finance-quote: command not found
> > >
> > > cpan>install Finance::Quote gives me the following message:
> > >
> > > CPAN: Storable loaded ok
> > > Going to read /root/.cpan/Metadata
> > >   Database was generated on Fri, 04 Jul 2003 00:43:49 GMT
> > > Finance::Quote is up to date.
> > >
> > > Which I presume means it is installed OK?
> > >
> > > Jon
> > >
> > > On Monday 07 July 2003 20:28, you wrote:
> > > > run dump-finance-quote
> > > >
> > > > -derek
> > > >
> > > > Jon Cooper <jon_cooper at ntlworld.com> writes:
> > > > > Derek,
> > > > > Thanks for the reply.
> > > > > I am not sure. I have done so many things whilst trying to get
> > > > > GnuCash to install. I certainly downloaded it at some stage, and
> > > > > remember doing all sorts of cpan commands but which worked and which
> > > > > didn't is beyond me now. How can I check?
> > > > >
> > > > > Jon
> > > > >
> > > > > On Monday 07 July 2003 19:11, you wrote:
> > > > > > Do you have the Finance::Quotes perl module installed?
> > > > > >
> > > > > > -derek
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Jon Cooper <jon_cooper at ntlworld.com> writes:
> > > > > > > Hello,
> > > > >
> > > > > .............
> > > > >
> > > > > > > Honest!
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > Jon
> > > > > > > _______________________________________________
> > > > > > > gnucash-user mailing list
> > > > > > > gnucash-user at lists.gnucash.org
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> 

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