No online quotes -- missing Perl module

[Donald Allen]

On 4/26/07, Josh Sled <jsled at asynchronous.org> wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-04-26 at 07:25 -0400, Donald Allen wrote:
> > On a new (pure) 64-bit Gentoo system, I have Gnucash 2.0.5 installed.
> > gnc-fq-update lives in /usr/bin. I've cd'ed to /usr/bin and run
> > gnc-fq-update as root, several times by now. The last time I ran it, I
> > asked it to do the tests and it said they passed (though several
> > subtests were skipped). But the bottom line is that if I attempt to
> > obtain quotes, I'm greeted with:
> >
> > gnc-fq-dump yahoo IBM
> > /usr/bin/gnc-fq-dump cannot find all the Perl modules needed to run.
> > You need to install the following Perl modules:
> >   Date::Manip
> > Use your system's package manager to install them,
> > or run 'gnc-fq-update' as root.
>
> Did you emerge gnucash with the 'quotes' use flag?
>
> phoenix ~ # dep -l =gnucash-2.0.5
> app-office/gnucash-2.0.5:
>   [...]
>     quotes?         dev-perl/DateManip       dev-perl/DateManip-5.44
>     quotes?         >=dev-perl/Finance-Quote-1.11 dev-perl/Finance-Quote-1.11
>     quotes?         dev-perl/HTML-TableExtract dev-perl/HTML-TableExtract-2.10
>
> Doing so will ensure that the requisite modules – Date::Manip in
> particular, here – are installed.  And using your distro's package
> manager is better than installing them manually (or via gnc-fq-update),
> anyways.

I did not specify the quotes USE flag. I will redo the emerge. Thanks.

/Don


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