Finance::Update

[Mike Asplin]

Hmm I don't either!!!  Tried reading around but all in too technical a
language for me.  Does anyone know how to use Perl with Windows 7 64 bit
please?

Mike

-----Original Message-----
From: Derek Atkins [mailto:warlord at MIT.EDU] 
Sent: 14 July 2010 16:43
To: Mike Asplin
Cc: gnucash-user at gnucash.org
Subject: Re: Finance::Update

Hi,

"Mike Asplin" <mike at asplins.co.uk> writes:

> Hi Derek et all
>
> Well found the first problem was when I installed I must have clicked off
> create menu item so have reinstalled and found the link to install online
> price retrieval.  I also went and downloaded and installed Perl
5.10.1.1007
> which is the 64bit version.
>
> However I then get this error
>
> 'perl' is not recognised as an internal or external command
>
> Did not find a usable perl
>
> Please install Activeperl 5.8 and add the bin directory to your Path
> Environment Variable.
>
> So do I need to downgrade to 5.8 or is something else amiss?

No, version 5.10 should be fine.  However it might not be in the default
search path environment?

I don't know how to fix that, I'm afraid.  I don't use Windows.

> Thanks Mike

-derek

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