Installing Finance Quote

Derek Atkins warlord at MIT.EDU
Mon Mar 30 12:30:18 EDT 2009


Hi,

Shiva <shivasidea at yahoo.com> writes:

> Hi,
>
> I have downlaoded GNU Cash from your site but could not install the finance quote.  The tutorial explains the procedure but I am not able to understand the same as it is too technical.
>
> The tutorial says :-
>
> Change to that directory, open a root shell and run the command “gnc-fq-update” (without the quotation marks). This will 
> launch a Perl CPAN update session that will go out onto the Internet and install 
> the Finance::Quote module on your system
>
> Pls send me that above file so that I could use the price updates from the web.

What OS/Distro do you use?
If you're using Windows then you need to install ActivePERL and then
you can run the finance::quote installer from the Start Menu.

> Warm regards,
> Shiva
> India

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-derek

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