gnucash-user Digest, Vol 34, Issue 16

[Oliver Iberien]

When installing Finance::Quote, try checking what its prerequisite CPAN 
packages are, then installing them. You may eventually discover the 
underlying problem in the error messages for these. Remember to run the tests 
for the installs (instructions are in the CPAN help menu) which will give you 
the prerequisite and other information.

To hazard a guess: with some of the basic workstation Linux installations, 
some of the GNU things that the basic PERL package needs, such as the GNU 
make program and a proper compiler, are missing. Installing these and then 
trying again may solve your problem. I imagine Mandriva includes them, but 
here they are:

http://directory.fsf.org/make.html
http://gcc.gnu.org/

Oliver

On Saturday 14 January 2006 23:28, gnucash-user-request at gnucash.org wrote:
> Message: 10
> Date: Sat, 14 Jan 2006 13:02:13 -0500
> From: Leon Goldman <leon244 at comcast.net>
> Subject: Re: Need help with 'Get Quotes'; system error
> To: gnucash-user at gnucash.org
> Message-ID: <43C93CA5.2040907 at comcast.net>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
>
> More info about my problem. When I try to edit an account, I see that
> there is a message that finance:quote was improperly installed. I tried
> to remove Gnucash and reinstall it without success. I then ran o conf
> init from cpan, but that did not fix the issue. I am unable to get
> quotes and was able to do it with my previous version of gnucash under
> Mandriva2005LE. I cannot find any more error messages. FWIW, running
> update-finance-quote a second time just tells me that it is already
> installed. Thanks
>
> Leon Goldman wrote:
> >I just upgraded to Mandriva 2006. All went well. It has gnucash 1.8. All
> >my old information was retrieved. I ran update-finance-quote and let it
> >run automatically; it ran and exited with 'ok'.  After that when I tried
> >to run "get quotes" I get a message that it fails because of a "System
> >error" but no further information as to what it is and what to do. I
> >tried running gnucash from a console to see if a message would be
> >written, but nothing was generated. Running dmesg did not give any
> >useful information. I would appreciate  any suggestions or help you all
> >may have. Thanks
> >
> >system is Pentium 4 2.4GHz, 1 GB RAM, ethernet connection to Internet
> >and it is working, Linux with 2.6.12 kernel from Mandriva and using kde
> >as my window manager
> >Thank you.
> >
> >Leon