message finance quote not correctly installed

[Derek Atkins]

hi,

"Edzard de Vries" <Edzard at stroomli.nl> writes:

> Dear users,
>
> To me GnuCash seems an excellent piece of software, but... I have a problem I cannot solve.
> Getting quotes for my shares on the internet seems to be impossible, the software always producing the message:
> "finance quote not correctly installed".
> I already downloaded the Perl software, but for some reason GnuCash cannot find Finance Quote.
>
> I am not at all a software expert. Can somebody telle me clearly and in simple steps what I have to do in what order to get Finance Quote on the right place?
> Maybe I have to carry out the installation procedure agian from the very beginneing (and first deinstall my actual version)?
>
> I found a lot of advice on this topic in other messages, but I do not succed to get GnuCash properly working.
> I use also Ace Money, and for that software getting the data from the internet is working properly.
>
> Longing for your advice, Edzard.

You don't say what version of GnuCash or what OS/Distro you are using.

If you're on Windows, please read:

  http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Windows#Finance::Quote

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-derek

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