Finance::Quote problem

[Doug Laidlaw]

Of course, once you have the entry in your rpm database, there is nothing to 
stop you installing updates via CPAN.  I never do; all Perl modules that are 
dependencies for anything are made available as rpms, and I wait for the 
updates.

Doug.

On Thu, 20 Aug 2009 11:00:32 pm Doug Laidlaw wrote:
> 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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