Which folder do I instal Finance::Quote in?
John Wilson
jwilsondmartin at gmail.com
Tue May 11 19:12:00 EDT 2010
Hi,
I have got it working by changing the symbol to its current one.
Having a bit of a problem looking up the other symbols but will plug
away at it
Thank you for your help
John
On Tue, 2010-05-11 at 18:44 -0400, Derek Atkins wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Tue, May 11, 2010 6:32 pm, John Wilson wrote:
> > On Tue, 2010-05-11 at 18:00 -0400, Derek Atkins wrote:
> > Hi Derek,
> > Have installed Finance::Quote in the /usr/bin folder but when I ran it
> > in GnuCash I got the error message 'Unable to retrieve quotes for these
> > items'
> > I then went back into the Terminal and ran from /usr/bin folder
> >> gnc-fq-dump yahoo CSCO
> > Here is the output:
> > john at john-desktop:/usr/bin$ gnc-fq-dump yahoo CSCO
> > Finance::Quote fields Gnucash uses:
> > symbol: CSCO <=== required
> > date: 05/11/2010 <=== required
> > currency: USD <=== required
> > last: 25.96 <=\
> > nav: <=== one of these
> > price: 25.96 <=/
> > timezone: <=== optional
> > Regards,
> > John
>
> This result means you have F::Q installed correctly and GnuCash is finding
> it. So your error is more likely to be a configuration error. What quote
> source and symbol do you have defined in your data file for the stocks in
> question? Most likely you have the stock symbol incorrect, or the quote
> source misconfigured.
>
> What do you have configured in your data file that's failing?
>
> -derek
>
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