Problem with FinanceQuote install on OSX 10.6.8

[John Ralls]

On Dec 21, 2011, at 9:09 AM, bunk3m wrote:

> Hi all.
> 
> I've been running QC 2.4.7 then 2.4.8 on OSX 10.6.8 for some time.  I've
> never used FinanceQuote so I've never touched or run it.
> 
> This week I need to do a currency transaction and GC asked to get
> something online.  Then there was an error something about FinanceQuote
> is not installed.
> 
> So I read the README and double-clicked FinanceQuote and it ran in the
> terminal.  I just hit <Return> to accept the default as it installed.
> 
> At the end there were errors.  See quote below.
> 
> I don't know what this means or what to do to fix it.
> 
> I'm running OSX v10.6.8 and Developer Tools 3.2.6 (which I think is the
> last for SL).
> 
> Could someone provide some guidance?
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> 
> B
> 
> PS On Digest mode, so would appreciate if you can cc me in addition to
> the list.  Thanks.
> ---quote start---
> Is it OK to try to connect to the Internet? [yes] yes
> Fetching with LWP:
>  http://www.perl.org/CPAN/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz
> Going to read /Users/user/.cpan/sources/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz
> ............................................................................DONE
> Fetching with LWP:
>  http://www.perl.org/CPAN/modules/02packages.details.txt.gz
> Going to read /Users/user/.cpan/sources/modules/02packages.details.txt.gz
>  Database was generated on Fri, 16 Dec 2011 20:35:56 GMT
> ..............
>  New CPAN.pm version (v1.9800) available.
>  [Currently running version is v1.9205]
>  You might want to try
>    install CPAN
>    reload cpan
>  to both upgrade CPAN.pm and run the new version without leaving
>  the current session.
> 
> 
> ..............................................................DONE
> Fetching with LWP:
>  http://www.perl.org/CPAN/modules/03modlist.data.gz
> Going to read /Users/user/.cpan/sources/modules/03modlist.data.gz
> 'glob' trapped by operation mask at (eval 35) line 1.
> at /System/Library/Perl/5.10.0/CPAN.pm line 5325
> 	CPAN::Index::rd_modlist('CPAN::Index',
> '/Users/user/.cpan/sources/modules/03modlist.data.gz') called at
> /System/Library/Perl/5.10.0/CPAN.pm line 4903
> 	CPAN::Index::reload('CPAN::Index-') called at
> /System/Library/Perl/5.10.0/CPAN.pm line 1219
> 	CPAN::exists('CPAN=HASH(0x100b07580)', 'CPAN::Module', 'LWP') called at
> /System/Library/Perl/5.10.0/CPAN.pm line 2855
> 	CPAN::Shell::expandany('CPAN::Shell', 'LWP') called at
> /System/Library/Perl/5.10.0/CPAN.pm line 3248
> 	CPAN::Shell::rematein('CPAN::Shell', 'install', 'LWP') called at
> /System/Library/Perl/5.10.0/CPAN.pm line 3535
> 	CPAN::Shell::__ANON__('CPAN::Shell', 'LWP') called at
> /Applications/Gnucash/Gnucash.app/Contents/Resources/bin/gnc-fq-update
> line 39
> ---end quote--

I've never run into that particular problem, but the solution most often mentioned on the web seems to be to delete the ~/.cpan directory and try again.

Some other things come to mind: Make sure "user" is an admin user and run Repair Permissions from Disk Utility.
You could also try upgrading CPAN.

Apple supports XCode4 on Snow Leopard; it's $4 from the App Store. But for this purpose, 3.2.6 is fine.

Regards,
John Ralls