Trouble setting up Finance::Quote

[Roy Nicholl]

Cory,

Either start your xterm as a login shell (-ls option) or put the  
variables / commands you want executed for every shell in your $ 
{HOME}/.bashrc file.


On 21-Jan-2007, at 15:07, Cory Helfrich wrote:

> Hello David,
>
> I think you are correct. My xterm $SHELL is /bin/bash, just like
> terminal. However, when I start xterm, the commands in my .profile
> are not executed, while these commands are executed when I start
> terminal (commands to modify the path and prompt, etc.). However, I
> do not know where to put these commands so they will be executed when
> X11 starts. Do you know?
>
> Thanks,
> Cory
> Cory Helfrich
> coryhelfrich at yahoo.ca
>
>
>
> On 20-Jan-07, at 11:15 PM, David T. wrote:
>
>> Oh man, I think I'm starting to understand where some of my own
>> problems on
>> this front are coming from (I am running GC2.0.4 on an IntelMac)--
>> and I think I
>> might have an idea on how Cory's problem might be solved.
>>
>> I believe the problem has to do with the fact that the Mac ends up
>> with two
>> separate environments--one for the base Terminal.app, and the
>> second for X11.
>> Fink runs under Terminal. Issuing the command gnc-fq-check at the
>> Terminal
>> command line yields the proper results; issuing the same command in
>> X11 yields
>> a File not found error.
>>
>> When I examine the PATH variables in each, I see:
>>
>> 1) Terminal:
>> PATH=/sw/bin:/sw/sbin:/opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin:/bin:/sbin:/
>> usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/X11R6/bin
>> 2) X11: PATH=/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/
>> X11R6/bin
>>
>> When I add the opt and sw directories in X11, gnc-fq-check begins
>> to work, and
>> F::Q works within GC once I restart GC. I tried editing my .profile
>> to add the
>> sw directories, but that did not take under X11 (I believe I need
>> to change
>> something else than .profile). Under these circumstances, however,
>> when I run
>> gnucash, now receive a slew of errors at the command line that all
>> begin:
>>
>> (gnucash:791): GLib-CRITICAL **: Invalid key name: {varname}
>>
>> Gnucash seems to run, but what are these? Never saw 'em before...
>>
>> And, what needs to change so that X11 gets the right PATH entries
>> to enable
>> this?
>>
>> Cheers,
>> David
>>
>> --- David Hampton <hampton-gnucash at rainbolthampton.net> wrote:
>>
>>> On Fri, 2007-01-19 at 21:32 +0300, Cory Helfrich wrote:
>>>
>>>> To me, this looks like F::Q is installed correctly.
>>>
>>> Agreed.  Based on the output of gnc-fq-check gnucash should say that
>>> F::Q is installed properly.  In fact, the output indicates that
>>> gnucash
>>> is seeing F::Q because it prints the installed version.
>>>
>>>> However, when I
>>>> opened gnucash after this, the Security Editor still indicated that
>>>> Finance::Quote was not installed properly. Do you have any other
>>>> suggestions?
>>>
>>> Maybe check your paths?  Is something installed in /usr that
>>> should be
>>> installed in /sw, or vice versa.  I don't run gnucash on a mac so
>>> I'm at
>>> the limit of what I can do to help.  I don't see any requirement in
>>> gnucash for indicating that F::Q is installed that isn't  
>>> satisfied by
>>> the same code that prints the F::Q version to the console.
>>>
>>> David
>>>
>>>
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