Finance::Quote problem

[Doug Laidlaw]

Hi Graeme.  I am running Mandriva 2009 Spring.  I merely installed Gnucash and 
it installed a F::Q RPM as a dependency.

Fedora uses rpms, but what follows should apply to any distro with a package 
manager, including Debian-based.  RPMs keep a database of what is or is not 
installed.  If you install F::Q via CPAN, your system's database won't know 
about it.  Your installation of GnuCash is reading that database, not your 
perl directory.  In that case, you need to compile Gnucash from the tarball.  
It will then bypass the database and find Finance::Quote.  In my case, I don't 
have the option of leaving it out, but it makes sense for those who don't have 
shares.

So my recommendation would be: find an RPM of Finance::Quote.  If there isn't 
one for your distro, the one for Fedora 10 or even from Mandriva may install, 
and you will have the installation issue covered.  If Fedora 11 gives you the 
option of "with-F::Q", take it, even though F::Q is already installed.

HTH,

Doug.

On Thu, 20 Aug 2009 02:49:20 pm you wrote:
> Hi,
>
> My apologies for repeating this post but Tools > Security Editor still
> does give an error that Finance::Quote is not installed properly. I said
> below that it didn't.
>
> I am having a problem that I have never experienced before with
> Finance::Quote.
>
> I originally installed and upgraded Finance::Quote via cpan and have
> never experienced a problem even after upgrading GnuCash to a later
> version.
>
> I was using Fedora 10 and the version of GnuCash that was was in the
> Fedora repos with no problem.
>
> I have just upgraded to Fedora 11 and the version of GnuCash in the
> repo, 2.2.9 and lost the ability to update my share prices. Tools >
> Security Editor gave an error message that Finance::Quote was not
> properly installed.
>
> I used cpan (under root) to install Finance::Quote on Fedora 11 which
> installed F::Q v. 1.16 but I can still not get security update prices.
> Tools > Security Editor no longer gives an error message regarding F::Q
>
> Is it still possible to install the latest F::Q using cpan? Or am I
> doing something else wrong?
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