online quote update and winXP problem

[Derek Atkins]

Hi.

Are you sure you're connected to the network when you run this?
Maybe you have a firewall setting in place?

The error looks prety suspicious, "Error: 500: Can't connect"

-derek

oliv928 <oliv928 at hotmail.com> writes:

> When I let GnuCash do it for me with the program : Start/All Programs/Install
> Online Quotes , the system returns me that error :
>
>
> http://www.nabble.com/file/p18278618/erreur%2B5.jpg 
>
>
> Oh please !
>
> Look at all my posts. I have done step by step WHAT IS WRITTEN in the manual
> ... I have tryed to do it.
> Could you then propose me another procedure ?
> I am under winXP
>
> Configuring for Automatic Retrieval of Quotes
> If you have more than a couple of commodities, you will tire of having to
> update their prices constantly.
> GnuCash has the ability to automatically download the most recent price for
> your commodities using the
> Internet. This is accomplished through the Perl module Finance::Quote, which
> must be installed in order to
> activate this feature.
> 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.
> 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 mar ks). 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 (
> ) for help or come to the GnuCash IRC channel
> <
> gnucash-user at gnucash.org
>>
> on irc.gnome.org. You can also leave out this step and manually update your
> stock prices.f
>
>
>
>
> Are you trying to execute it by HAND?  Or let GnuCash do it
> for you?  You should not be running any of these tools by
> hand.
>
> -derek
>
> oliv928 <oliv928 at hotmail.com> writes:
>
>> if i do not rename the file, i can not execute it with activeperl.
>> i have done all the steps, see following message , but it doesnt work.
>>
>>
>> Fred Bone wrote:
>>> 
>>> On 2 July 2008 at 8:40, oliv928 said:
>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> i was having activeperl 5.6 installed. i have de installed it, and
>>>> install
>>>> now 5.8 and will try.
>>>> 
>>>> anyway i dont understand something : why the files : gnc-fq-update ,
>>>> gnc-fq-helper, dump, ... have no .pl extensions. when i want to run it
>>>> as
>>>> perl program, activeperl need the to have this extension. So I add it.
>>>> But
>>>> I dont know if it is correct to force files like that.
>>> 
>>> Do not rename the files.
>>> 
>>> 
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