Finance::Quote not installed properly

[Derek Atkins]

Doug Laidlaw <laidlaws at myaccess.com.au> writes:

> I have installed Gnucash 1.8.9 from Mandrake RPMs.I have the 
> perl-Finance-Quote RPM  installed as a dependency.  I also recently installed 
> it again with CPAN, and got a message that it was up to date.  Yet when I 
> open the "Edit Account" dialog, I get a message (grayed out) that 
> Finance::Quote is not installed properly.  The accounts are bank accounts, 
> but I do have some shares on the ASX, which I would like to add.
>
> Does the fact that the message is grayed out mean that the module is correctly 
> installed, or on the other hand that it is not correctly installed, but 
> inapplicable to a current account.  If the latter, where can I start looking?

It could be either.  You can find and run the check-finance-quote
script to see if it's properly installed.  If it is properly installed
then it might be greyed out due to the account type.

-derek
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