Help installing gnc-fq-update

[Derek Atkins]

Hi,

"Maf. King" <maf at chilwell.net> writes:

> On Wednesday 09 Nov 2011 04:30:03 jay ipsen wrote:
>> I am a gnucash user of around 2 years.  I would like to install the stock
>> price update feature, but have not been successful.  I have very little
>> programing knowledge.  The help section states -Second, locate the folder
>> where GnuCash is installed by searching for “gnc-fq-update” (without the
>> quotes).-  I have searched for the file using Nautilus, but it does not
>> produce any results.  Thus I can not locate the folder that gnucash is
>> installed in.  What am I doing wrong?
>> 
>> The operating system I am using is Ubuntu 11.10.
>> 
>> Thanks for any assistance.
>> 
>> 
>> Jay Ipsen
>> 
>
> Hi Jay,
>
> If you are semi-comfortable with the shell, try the command 
>
> which gnc-fq-update
>
> This will give you the full path to that program, if it is in one of the 
> directories that make up the $PATH environmental variable for runnable 
> programs.  (it is in /usr/bin/ on my SuSE 11.4 / GC 2.4.7 system) 

There is no need to run gnc-fq-update on Ubuntu.  Just install the
ubuntu F::Q package (I don't know the package name -- probably
perl-finance-quote).

> HTH,
> Maf.

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-derek

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