Downloading quotes

[Derek Atkins]

Please check the archives; I'm pretty sure that has been discussed
before.  As I recall it's a Perl Include Path problem.

-derek

Ben <allegro at clear.net.nz> writes:

> Hello all,
>
> I've been having a bit of fun trying to get the downloading
> of security prices working. I'm using OS X 10.3.6 and Fink.
> So far I've managed to install GnuCash 1.8.9 from source,
> and everything seems to be fine in the base application.
>
> However, when going to Price Editor and clicking on Get
> Quotes, I get a message to the effect that I have to run
> update-finance-quote as root. At this point, I ran fink
> -list finance, which gave the following result:
>
> Information about 1984 packages read in 2 seconds.
>  
>   i   finance-quot...  1.08-11      Perl module to get stock
> quotes
>  
>   i   finance-quot...  0.31-11      Perl module to get old
> financial
>  quotes
>
> Nonetheless, I executed sudo update-finance-quote, at the
> end of which all the tests ran successfully. However, I
> still get the prompt saying that some packages are missing
> and that I should run update-finance-quote. I'm wondering if
> there are other modules that I'm lacking (but shouldn't Fink
> have installed them), or whether GnuCash has problems
> locating the Perl modules. In any case, I'm a bit confused,
> and was wanting to know if anyone had any advice on this.
>
> Ben
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