Finance::Update

[Mike Leone]

On 7/14/2010 1:09 PM, Mike Asplin had this to say:
> 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?

If the only problem is adding something to the path, you do that in Win7:

Windows 2000, XP, Vista, Windows 7
******************************
1. Right-click on the My Computer icon. (Under Windows XP, Vista, or 
Windows 7, the My Computer Icon may be located in the start menu.)

2. Choose Properties from the context menu.

(Alternatively, you can double-click on the System icon in the Control 
Panel)

4. Click the Advanced tab or "Advanced system settings" on Windows Vista 
or Windows 7

5. Click the Environment Variables button.

6. Click on the variable called 'Path' and then click on Edit. Now add 
the target directory to the value of the variable, using a semi-colon as 
a separator.

For example, if you want to add the path to MATLAB/bin to your system, 
which if located at c:\matlab\bin, you would enter the following at the 
end of the Path:


;c:\matlab\bin

7. Log out, and log back in, for the changes to take affect.

<http://www.mathworks.com/support/solutions/en/data/1-15ZLK/index.html>

Obviously, you would add the path for the Perl installation. But I would 
have that that was added for you automatically, when you installed Perl.

>
> 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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