Installing Finance::quote

[David Reiser]

On Jun 19, 2009, at 5:50 PM, Xavier LAROSE wrote:

> I'm on MAC OS 10.5 and I use Gnucash 2.2.9.
> I 've seen in the documentation instructions for install  
> Finance::quote.
> But I do not understand the sentence "Change to that directory, open  
> a root shell and run the command gnc-fq-update”
>
> It is also written in the documentation "To determine if the Perl  
> module Finance::Quote is already installed on your system, type  
> “perldoc
> Finance::Quote” in a terminal window and check to see if there is  
> any documentation available. If you
> see the documentation, then the module is installed, if you do not  
> see the documentation, then it has
> not been installed."
>
> I did that and got :
>
> Finance::Quote(3)     User Contributed Perl Documentation     
> Finance::Quote(3)
>
> NAME
>       Finance::Quote − Get stock and mutual fund quotes from various
>       exchanges
>
> SYNOPSIS
>          use Finance::Quote;
>          $q = Finance::Quote‐>new;
>
>          $q‐>timeout(60);
>
>          $conversion_rate = $q‐>currency("AUD","USD");
>          $q‐>set_currency("EUR");  # Return all info in Euros.
>
>          $q‐>require_labels(qw/price date high low volume/);
>
>          $q‐>failover(1);     # Set failover support (on by  
> default).
>
>          %quotes  = $q‐>fetch("nasdaq", at stocks);
>          $hashref = $q‐>fetch("nyse", at stocks);
> /var/folders/G+/G+cbd6S92RaEDE+BYowxn++++TI/-Tmp-/zoih4Obd8Q
>
>
> What does that mean ?
> Is it already installed ?
> How to get other quotes than Nyse or Nasdaq, CAC 40 for example ?

Since you have the documentation, you probably have the software.

NYSE and NASDAQ are not quote sources, so the Namespace/Type in the  
Security editor is unimportant. See the docs for a discussion of the  
Security Editor and setting up online quote retrieval.


http://svn.gnucash.org/docs/help/tool-price.html#invest-stockprice-online1

Dave
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