Installing Finance::Quote

[Derek Atkins]

Hi,

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Quoting Carlos Tecles <carlos.tecles at gmail.com>:

> Hi Derek,
>
> What is a gnome-terminal???
> I got the EXE file (gnucash-2.2.1-setup) from sourceforge.

AHA!  See, you left out that important piece of information, that
you're running on Windows!  Now, if you had mentioned that I could
have told you that you'll just need to install ActivePerl and then
you can run the F::Q activation script which, IIRC, should be available
through the Start menu.  (I'm not 100% sure of this last part,
I'm afraid)..

But the docs you pointed out are for Linux/Unix/Mac, not Windows.

> Carlos

-derek

> 2007/8/27, Derek Atkins <warlord at mit.edu>:
>>
>> Open up gnome-terminal or xterm, su root, and run the program.
>> How did you install gnucash if you didn't get into a root shell?
>>
>> -derek
>>
>> Quoting Carlos Tecles <carlos.tecles at gmail.com>:
>>
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > I can´t install the "Finance::Quote" as described.
>> > How do I open this root shell?
>> >
>> > Thanks
>> > Carlos
>> >
>> >  Installing Finance::Quote
>> >
>> > To install Finance::Quote begin by first closing any GnuCash
>> applications
>> > you have running. Second, locate the folder where GnuCash is installed
>> by
>> > searching for "gnc-fq-update" (without the quotes). Change to that
>> > directory, open a root shell and run the command "gnc-fq-update"
>> (without
>> > the quotation marks). This will launch a Perl CPAN update session that
>> will
>> > go out onto the Internet and install the Finance::Quote module on your
>> > system. The gnc-fq-update program is interactive, however, with most
>> systems
>> > you should be able to answer "no" to the first question: "Are you ready
>> for
>> > manual configuration? [yes]" and the update will continue automatically
>> from
>> > that point.
>> >
>> > After installation is complete, you should run the "gnc-fq-dump" test
>> > program, in the same directory, distributed with GnuCash to test if
>> > Finance::Quote is installed and working properly.
>> > Note
>> >
>> > If you feel uncomfortable about performing any of these steps, please
>> either
>> > email the GnuCash-user mailing list (<gnucash-user at gnucash.org>) for
>> help or
>> > come to the GnuCash IRC channel on irc.gnome.org. You can also leave out
>> > this step and manually update your stock prices.
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       Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory
       Member, MIT Student Information Processing Board  (SIPB)
       URL: http://web.mit.edu/warlord/    PP-ASEL-IA     N1NWH
       warlord at MIT.EDU                        PGP key available