Installing Finance::Quote for GnuCash

[Andreas Köhler]

Hi Kaila,

On So, 2008-01-20 at 19:52 -0500, Kaila Holtz wrote:
> Am installing GnuCash on a computer with Windows XP (SP2), and having
> trouble configuring GnuCash for automatic retrieval of quotes.  GnuCash help
> gives the following instructions:
> 
>    To determine if the Perl module Finance::Quote is already installed on
> your system, type "perldoc Finance::Quote" in a terminal window and check to
> see if there is any documentation available. If you see the documentation,
> then the module is installed, if you do not see the documentation, then it
> has not been installed.
> 
> typing "perldoc Finance::Quote" at a command prompt gives a DOS error.  Are
> there XP-specific instructions for this function?

have you tried to use the "Install Online Price Retrieval" start menu
item?  Please note that ActivePerl 5.10 will *not* work currently,
version 5.6 or 5.8 is needed as nobody seems to distribute binary 5.10
Finance-Quote ppms yet.

-- andi5