Finance::Quote problem

[Graeme Nichols]

On 08/23/2009 06:02 PM, Doug Laidlaw wrote:
> On Sun, 23 Aug 2009 03:14:10 pm Graeme Nichols wrote:
>    
>> On 08/20/2009 11:00 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.
>>>        
>> Hi Doug,
>>
>> Thanks for the info. When GnuCash was upgraded after upgrading from F10
>> to F11 no dependency was listed but I couldn't get quotes anymore so I
>> installed F::Q via cpan as I have always done without problems.
>>
>> Derek asked what the result of gnc-fq-dump was. That said that
>> /usr/bin/gnc-fq-dump cannot find all the Perl modules needed to run.
>>
>> Install Crypt::SSLeay or run gnc-fq-update as root.
>>
>> I ran gnc-fq-update, as root, and it installed Crypt::SSLeay and some
>> other modules but I still cannot get quotes. I also re-installed GnuCash
>> but no joy. I am not sure what to do next.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Graeme.
>>
>>      
>>> 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.
>>>        
> I don't know if I can help you further.  What sourrce of quotes are you using?
> I tried to use ASX, but couldn't get it to work. The test program seemed to be
> saying that there weren't enough parameters for GnuCash to use.  That seemed
> strange, but I switched to Yahoo Australia and have had no problems.  I am
> running F::Q version 1.16.  The dependencies it lists are:
> perl-libwww-perl
> perl-HTML-TableExtract
> perl-CGI
> perl-HTML-Tree
> rpmlib(PayloadFilesHavePrefix)<= 4.0-1
> rpmlib(CompressedFileNames)<= 3.0.4-1
> rpmlib(VersionedDependencies)<= 3.0.3-1
> perl-base>= 2:5.10.0
> perl(CGI)
> perl(Carp)
> perl(Crypt::SSLeay)
> perl(Encode)
> perl(Exporter)
> perl(Finance::Quote::UserAgent)
> perl(Finance::Quote::Yahoo::Base)
> perl(HTML::Parser)
> perl(HTML::TableExtract)
> perl(HTML::TreeBuilder)
> perl(HTTP::Headers)
> perl(HTTP::Request::Common)
> perl(HTTP::Status)
> perl(LWP::Simple)
> perl(LWP::UserAgent)
> perl(POSIX)
> perl(URI)
> perl(URI::QueryParam)
> rpmlib(PayloadIsLzma)<= 4.4.6-1
>
> You can ignore the rpmlib ones.  I haven't used CPAN for a while, but I
> thought that it took care of the dependencies.  It might be worthwhile seeing
> if the Fedora list has any ideas, since it seems to have become a problem only
> when you upgraded.
>
> Doug.
>    

Hi Doug,

Thanks for getting back to me with the above info. I appreciate it. I 
still haven't got it working but I can get my quotes through KMyMoney2 
so I might wait until I upgrade GnuCash again and then try. I keep 
KMyMoney2 so I can get decent reports, as I cannot write them :-), and 
it reads GnuCash xml files which makes it easy.

Thanks again Doug,

Regards,

Graeme.