Finance Quote Installation for Windows

[Justice Erolin]

Just installed Finance Quote using your recommendation.  Thanks, David!

On Sun, May 25, 2008 at 7:34 AM, Justice Erolin <justice.erolin at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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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>>
>>
>> --
>>      Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory
>>      Member, MIT Student Information Processing Board  (SIPB)
>>      URL: http://web.mit.edu/warlord/    PP-ASEL-IA     N1NWH
>>      warlord at MIT.EDU                        PGP key available
>>
>>
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