Downloading quotes

Dave Reed drlinux at columbus.rr.com
Wed Dec 8 12:39:40 EST 2004


On Wednesday 08 December 2004 10:52, Ben wrote:
> 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

I recent installed gnucash on OSX 10.3.6 from fink and I'm pretty 
certain the finance-quote stuff just worked. I did install the binary 
gnucash package from fink instead of compiling it. I don't think I 
separately installed finance-quote.

Here are the files in /sw (where fink installs things) - I produced this 
by executing: locate finance-quote | grep '/sw'.

/sw/bin/dump-finance-quote
/sw/bin/update-finance-quote
/sw/fink/10.3/stable/main/finkinfo/libs/perlmods/finance-quote-pm581.info
/sw/fink/10.3/stable/main/finkinfo/libs/perlmods/finance-quotehist-pm581.info
/sw/fink/10.3/unstable/main/finkinfo/libs/perlmods/finance-quote-pm581.info
/sw/fink/10.3/unstable/main/finkinfo/libs/perlmods/finance-quotehist-pm581.info
/sw/share/doc/finance-quote-pm581
/sw/share/doc/finance-quote-pm581/FAQ
/sw/share/doc/finance-quote-pm581/Hackers-Guide
/sw/share/doc/finance-quote-pm581/INSTALL
/sw/share/doc/finance-quote-pm581/License
/sw/share/doc/finance-quote-pm581/MANIFEST
/sw/share/doc/finance-quote-pm581/README
/sw/share/doc/finance-quotehist-pm581
/sw/share/doc/finance-quotehist-pm581/Changes
/sw/share/doc/finance-quotehist-pm581/MANIFEST
/sw/share/doc/finance-quotehist-pm581/README
/sw/share/gnucash/finance-quote-check
/sw/share/gnucash/finance-quote-helper
/sw/share/podfiles/5.8.1/perllocal.finance-quote-pm581.pod
/sw/share/podfiles/5.8.1/perllocal.finance-quotehist-pm581.pod
/sw/var/cache/apt/archives/finance-quote-pm581_1.08-11_darwin-powerpc.deb
/sw/var/cache/apt/archives/finance-quotehist-pm581_0.31-11_darwin-powerpc.deb
/sw/var/lib/dpkg/info/finance-quote-pm581.list
/sw/var/lib/dpkg/info/finance-quote-pm581.postinst
/sw/var/lib/dpkg/info/finance-quote-pm581.postrm
/sw/var/lib/dpkg/info/finance-quotehist-pm581.list
/sw/var/lib/dpkg/info/finance-quotehist-pm581.postinst
/sw/var/lib/dpkg/info/finance-quotehist-pm581.postrm

Do you have all these files?

The only thing I did extra was copy the Tiaacref.pm file from my Linux 
box since it contain fixes for getting quotes for Tiaa-cref funds.

Dave




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