Installing Finance:Quote

[Dawning Sky]

On 10/18/06, jcnwilson at netscape.net <jcnwilson at netscape.net> wrote:
> Having decided to get away from Windows and try Xandros Home Edition Premium
> 4.0 I needed to change from my old DOS based accounting programme (NewViews).
> Not being an accountant I am very impressed with the help and concepts manual,
> there are one or two minor bugs.
> I cannot get update-finance-quote to run.
> I have installed from Xandros's unsupported site the package
> libfinance-quote-perl which should contain the module.
> When I try and run update-finance-quote I am told "command not found".
> Any suggestions?

http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/FAQ#Q:_Why_did_Finance::Quote_stop_working.3F

> Also my old version of NewViews gave me a balance sheet where my assets and
> liabilities balanced.
> In GnuCash with its tree of accounts shouldn't assets and liabilities balance?

Not sure what you mean by "assents and liabilities balance".  But the
basic principle of accounting is Assets = Liabilities + Owners'
Equities.

> Regards,
> John Wilson

DS