gnucash-user Digest, Vol 34, Issue 16

[Leon Goldman]

Oliver,
Thank you. That was the problem. I needed to install GNAT and a couple
of other items and now it works. I am grateful for your guidance.
Leon

Oliver Iberien wrote:

>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:
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>
>>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
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>>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
>>>      
>>>
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