Can't set up stock account in gnucash

[Victor Roberts]

I recently installed Red hat 9.0 and am trying to learn gnucash. I can't
figure out how to properly set up a stock account.

I created a top level account called Stock. Then I used the Price Editor
to create a Commodity "GE" which is the NYSE symbol for General
Electric. However, when I create a child account of type stock and name
GE under the main Stock account the entire "Get Price Quote" screen is
gray instead of black and white. If I try to run the Pearl script as
root all I get are error messages. I obviously have not done something
right. Any help would be appreciated.

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Vic Roberts