Finance::Quote works, but gnucash->update prices doesn't.

[David Reed]

On Aug 18, 2005, at 5:33 PM, David Hampton wrote:

> On Thu, 2005-08-18 at 10:57 -0400, Thomas John Vitolo wrote:
>
>

<snip>

> Try running the finance-quote-check program by hand and see what it
> says.  This is the same application gnucash runs to check the F::Q
> installation.  It should either give you back a list of quote sources,
> or tell you what module gnucash thinks is missing.  Again, I don't  
> know
> where stuff gets installed on the mac, but if gnucash is installed as
> say /sw/bin/gnucash, then finance-quote-check should be installed
> as /sw/share/gnucash/finance-quote-check.
>
> If finance-quote-check says you are missing a module, start there.  If
> finance-quote-check gives you a list of quote sources, then gnucash is
> unable to run the finance-quote-check program for some reason.
>
> David


Here's where the files are on my system (10.4 w/ gnucash installed  
via fink).

$ locate finance-quote
/sw/bin/dump-finance-quote
/sw/bin/update-finance-quote
/sw/fink/10.4-transitional/stable/main/finkinfo/libs/perlmods/finance- 
quote-pm.info
/sw/fink/10.4-transitional/stable/main/finkinfo/libs/perlmods/finance- 
quotehist-pm.info
/sw/fink/10.4-transitional/unstable/main/finkinfo/libs/perlmods/ 
finance-quote-pm.info
/sw/fink/10.4-transitional/unstable/main/finkinfo/libs/perlmods/ 
finance-quotehist-pm.info
/sw/share/doc/finance-quote-pm586
/sw/share/doc/finance-quote-pm586/FAQ
/sw/share/doc/finance-quote-pm586/Hackers-Guide
/sw/share/doc/finance-quote-pm586/INSTALL
/sw/share/doc/finance-quote-pm586/License
/sw/share/doc/finance-quote-pm586/MANIFEST
/sw/share/doc/finance-quote-pm586/README
/sw/share/doc/finance-quotehist-pm586
/sw/share/doc/finance-quotehist-pm586/Changes
/sw/share/doc/finance-quotehist-pm586/MANIFEST
/sw/share/doc/finance-quotehist-pm586/README
/sw/share/gnucash/finance-quote-check
/sw/share/gnucash/finance-quote-helper
/sw/share/podfiles/5.8.6/perllocal.finance-quote-pm586.pod
/sw/share/podfiles/5.8.6/perllocal.finance-quotehist-pm586.pod
/sw/var/cache/apt/archives/finance-quote-pm586_1.08-13_darwin- 
powerpc.deb
/sw/var/cache/apt/archives/finance-quotehist-pm586_0.31-13_darwin- 
powerpc.deb
/sw/var/lib/dpkg/info/finance-quote-pm586.list
/sw/var/lib/dpkg/info/finance-quote-pm586.postinst
/sw/var/lib/dpkg/info/finance-quote-pm586.postrm
/sw/var/lib/dpkg/info/finance-quotehist-pm586.list
/sw/var/lib/dpkg/info/finance-quotehist-pm586.postinst
/sw/var/lib/dpkg/info/finance-quotehist-pm586.postrm

HTH,
Dave