Trouble setting up Finance::Quote

[Cory Helfrich]

Hello David,

Thanks for the suggestion. I did have crypt -ssleay-pm586 installed  
(version 0.51-1). I use Fink, but I think this is the perl module you  
are talking about. Do you have any other suggestions?

Thanks,
Cory Helfrich
coryhelfrich at yahoo.ca



On 17-Jan-07, at 12:13 AM, David Hampton wrote:

> On Tue, 2007-01-16 at 21:46 +0300, Cory Helfrich wrote:
>
>> I started gnucash and opened the fund in the Security Editor. The
>> fund screen still indicates that Finance::Quote is not installed
>> properly.
>>
>> Any advice regarding how to correct this would be greatly  
>> appreciated.
>
> Install the perl Crypt:SSLeay module.  Its the perl-Crypt-SSLeay  
> rpm on
> Fedora systems.  Don't know what its called elsewhere.
>
>> Finance::Quote appeared to install correctly. Here is the
>> screen dump of the gnc-fq-dump:
>>
>> Begin Screen dump:
>> 09:38 PM ~ $ gnc-fq-dump canada F:AIS509
>> Finance::Quote fields Gnucash uses:
>>      symbol: F:AIS509             <=== required
>>        date: ** missing **        <=== required
>>    currency: ** missing **        <=== required
>>        last: 0.00                 <=\
>>         nav:                      <=== one of these
>>       price:                      <=/
>>    timezone:                      <=== optional
>>
>> ** This stock quote cannot be used by gnucash!!
>
> Getting F::Q installed is only half of the problem.  You need to  
> find a
> quote source that provides information for your particular fund,  
> and the
> symbol that it uses for the fund.  There are currently sources for
> canadian funds from www.fundlibrary.com and www.stockhouse.ca.
>
> David
>
>