Can't set up stock account in gnucash

[Victor Roberts]

On Sat, 2003-09-13 at 19:29, Jon Lapham wrote:
> Victor Roberts wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> Vic-
> 
> RH9 doesn't have the latest version of the docs (probably because they 
> didn't exist at the time), but the GnuCash web site does.  The latest 
> version of the docs has info on setting up stock accounts.
> 
> Try this:
> http://www.gnucash.org/docs/v1.8/C/gnucash-guide/chapter8.html
> 
> Specifically:
> http://www.gnucash.org/docs/v1.8/C/gnucash-guide/invest_setup1.html
> 
> Does that help?
> 
> -Jon

The problem has been solved. I did not have perl installed. I then found
that I could not install the set of development tools which included
perl because I had run up2date on my system and two modules krb5-libs
and openssl had been upgraded to newer versions than the ones that the
system was looking for.

So ... I went to www.redhat.com and found the rpm for perl-CPAN,
downloaded that and installed it. Then I could run the perl script that
installs the price quote module. After that I went back to the Price
Editor screen and was now able to click on "Get Online Quotes" box for
my stocks. using Yahoo as the quote server, I am now able to get online
stock price quotes. 

-- 
Vic Roberts