help installing finance quote mac snow leopard

[Martin Cunningham]

tried running gnc-fq-update as you suggested and got the following:

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mc-imac-2:~ martincunningham$ sudo
Gnucash.app/Contents/Resources/bin/gnc-fq-update
sudo: Gnucash.app/Contents/Resources/bin/gnc-fq-update: command not found
mc-imac-2:~ martincunningham$

Martin Cunningham


On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 6:53 AM, John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> wrote:
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> On Dec 7, 2009, at 9:48 PM, Martin Cunningham wrote:
>
>> Thanks. I ran gnc-fq-check and got the following:
>>
>> "You need to install the following Perl modules:
>>  Finance::Quote
>>  HTML::TableExtract
>>  Crypt::SSLeay
>>  Date::Manip
>>
>> Use your system's package manager to install them,
>> or run 'gnc-fq-update' as root.
>> missing-lib
>> logout
>>
>> [Process completed]"
>>
>> Where can I find these modules and how do i install them?
>>
>> When i try to run gnc-fq-update i get a message saying something like
>> 'you need to log in as root'. So I log out and then log in as root and
>> type 'sudo gnc-fq-update' and i get a 'procedure not recognized' type
>> of error in Terminal.
>>
>> Martin Cunningham
>>
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 7:33 AM, John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> wrote:
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>>>
>>>
>>> Unfortunately, a MacPorts-installed Finance::Quote won't work with the Gnucash binaries, because Macports installs into a private directory not in the normal Perl include path.
>>>
>>> In Gnucash.app/Contents/Resources/bin, you'll find two programs, gncfqcheck and gncfqupdate. The first will tell you what's wrong with your F::Q installation, the second (run with sudo) will install F::Q for you.
>>>
>>> If you get errors from either, please report them in detail to the list.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> John ralls
>
> No, don't log in as root. Ever. Use sudo instead, like this:
> $ sudo Gnucash.app/Contents/Resources/bin/gnc-fq-update
>
> If it doesn't work, copy the error message into your reply, don't summarize it.
>
>
> To answer your other question, cpan, the perl package manager. For example:
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> $ sudo cpan -i Finance::Quote
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> Will install Finance::Quote and any dependencies which you don't already have installed. gnc-fq-update just runs cpan for  you for all of the modules that gnc-fq-check tells you that you need.
>
> Regards,
> John Ralls
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