Finance Quote Installation for Windows

[Justice Erolin]

Wow.  Sometimes the easiest solutions are the best ones.

I haven't tried it yet.  Right now I'm installing ActivePerl 5.8.  GnuCash
said that 5.10 was not compatible with Finance Quote.

On Sun, May 25, 2008 at 6:55 AM, Derek Atkins <warlord at mit.edu> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Did you try [Start] -> All Programs -> GnuCash -> Install Finance Quote
> ??
>
> -derek
>
>
> Quoting Justice Erolin <justice.erolin at gmail.com>:
>
>  Hello.  I'm running Gnucash 2.2.5 in Windows XP SP3.  I am not familiar to
>> Perl, so this is quite new to me.
>>
>> Finance::Quote is not installed, and I'm following the online
>> documentation
>> from GnuCash along with Perl beginner forums to install this module.
>> Additionally, two other modules are not installed and I am trying to
>> install
>> them--HTML:: TableExtract and Date::Manip.
>>
>> I ran gnc-fq-update and I get the following an error regarding parsing a
>> YAML file.  I checked ActivePerl to make sure that I have the most recent
>> updates to all YAML packages.  Still, I get the same error.  The log is
>> shown below.
>>
>> I would appreciate as much as help as I can get.  Thank you very much.
>>
>> C:\Documents and Settings\Justice>perl "c:\program
>> files\gnucash\bin\gnc-fq-upda
>> te"
>> CPAN: File::HomeDir loaded ok (v0.69)
>> Use of uninitialized value $ENV{"HOME"} in concatenation (.) or string at
>> C:\Per
>> l\lib/CPAN/Config.pm line 6.
>> CPAN: Storable loaded ok (v2.18)
>> Going to read C:\Perl\cpan\sources\authors\01mailrc.txt.gz
>> CPAN: Compress::Zlib loaded ok (v2.008)
>>
>> ............................................................................DONE
>>
>> Going to read C:\Perl\cpan\sources\modules\02packages.details.txt.gz
>>  Database was generated on Sat, 24 May 2008 08:30:29 GMT
>> CPAN: HTTP::Date loaded ok (v5.810)
>>
>> ............................................................................DONE
>>
>> Going to read C:\Perl\cpan\sources\modules\03modlist.data.gz
>>
>> ............................................................................DONE
>>
>> Going to write C:\Perl\cpan\Metadata
>> LWP is up to date (5.812).
>> Running install for module 'Date::Manip'
>> Running make for S/SB/SBECK/Date-Manip-5.54.tar.gz
>> CPAN: LWP::UserAgent loaded ok (v5.810)
>> CPAN: Time::HiRes loaded ok (v1.9711)
>> Fetching with LWP:
>>
>>
>> http://ppm.activestate.com/CPAN/authors/id/S/SB/SBECK/Date-Manip-5.54.tar.gz
>> CPAN: YAML::XS loaded ok (v0.26)
>> Alert: While trying to 'parse' YAML file
>> 'C:\Perl\cpan\FTPstats.yml'
>> with 'YAML::XS' the following error was encountered:
>>  Usage: YAML::XS::LibYAML::Load(yaml_str) at C:\Perl\site\lib/YAML/XS.pm
>> line 7
>> 0.
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