Automatic Retrieval of Quotes

[John Ralls]

On Dec 14, 2010, at 3:15 PM, David T. wrote:

> Dean--
> 
> I'm putting this back on the list. Since you installed in the way I have, I don't see why it doesn't work for you. Perhaps the Mac OS X package maintainer will be able to help you out.
> 
> David
> 
> P.S. -- DO try to use the Reply-All option when you respond; you will get a better overall response from the whole list than just me (especially since I am just a regular user like you, just with a little more time under my Gnucash belt).
> 
> --- On Tue, 12/14/10, Dean Reding <redinvd at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> 
> From: Dean Reding <redinvd at sbcglobal.net>
> Subject: Re: Automatic Retrieval of Quotes
> To: "David T." <sunfish62 at yahoo.com>
> Date: Tuesday, December 14, 2010, 2:31 PM
> 
> 
> I installed from sourceforge.net. I downloaded the Gnucash-Intel-2.2.9.5.dmg. I opened the "Readme first doc and moved the .app file to my applications folder per the instructions. 
> 
> Dean Reding(903) 566-7565(903) 312-2435http://redinvd.fatcow.com/ 
> On Dec 14, 2010, at 3:30 PM, David T. wrote:
> Can you confirm how you installed Gnucash? The troubles you describe sound like you installed from Fink or Macports, and they didn't get everything in place. I have found that downloading and installing the Gnucash.app bundle took care of all this.
> 
> David
> 
> --- On Tue, 12/14/10, Dean Reding <redinvd at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> 
> From: Dean Reding <redinvd at sbcglobal.net>
> Subject: Re: Automatic Retrieval of Quotes
> To: "David T." <sunfish62 at yahoo.com>
> Date: Tuesday, December 14, 2010, 12:33 PM
> 
> I cannot check the "Get Online Quotes" box in the New Security Window. Under "Quote Source Information" a message reads "Warning: Finance::Quote not installed properly." Consequently the "Get Quotes Button" in the Price Editor window is grayed out.
> What needs to be done?
> Thanks,
> Dean Reding(903) 566-7565(903) 312-2435http://redinvd.fatcow.com/ 
> On Dec 13, 2010, at 6:04 PM, David T. wrote:
> Dean--
> Assuming you are using Gnucash 2.2.9 from the Mac OS X disk image file on Sourceforge (see http://sourceforge.net/projects/gnucash/files/gnucash%20%28stable%29/2.2.9/), then I think you're making this hard on yourself.
> You can set up Gnucash to download price quotes from within the application itself. This involves a few steps:
> 1) Create the securities in question (under Tools menu, or from the New Account window when you choose to create a stock type account; see http://code.gnucash.org/docs/guide/invest-setup1.html for more info). Be sure to check the Get Online Quotes option in the New Security window.
> 2) Open the price editor window (under Tools menu), and then click the Get quotes button. If all goes well, the hourglass/beachball will appear and then disappear, and expanding your commdity list should result in your seeing a price for today's date (or the last trade date).
> As an aside, I'll note that there are ways to run the price update from a Terminal window, making it possible to have these updates run every day, automatically. Some of us have even asked whether this could be an added feature for the start up of Gnucash.
> HTH,David
> --- On Mon, 12/13/10, Dean Reding <redinvd at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> From: Dean Reding <redinvd at sbcglobal.net>Subject: Automatic Retrieval of QuotesTo: gnucash-user at gnucash.orgDate: Monday, December 13, 2010, 12:12 PMI am running Tiger 4.11.
> When I try to run the FinanceQuote Update application, Ireceived the following message.
> When I click on the "Edit" button, I received thefollowing:
> How do I get Gnucash to obtain stock & mutual fundquotes.
> I tried to run the "gnc-fq-update" in terminal. I get amessage "Command not found."

The "Update FinanceQuote" app in the 2.2.9.5 dmg is broken. I put a new one in the stable/2.2.9 download folder a couple of weeks ago. Download it, unzip it, copy it to /Applications and double-click it.

Or you can run gnc-fq-update in terminal like this:
/Applications/Gnucash.app/Contents/Resources/bin/gnc-fq-update

Which is exactly what Update FinanceQuote.app does, which is why it needs to be in the same directory as Gnucash.app.

Regards,
John Ralls