Finance::Quote

[Les]

On 05/02/2012 11:29 PM, Mike Alexander wrote:
> --On May 2, 2012 5:21:22 AM -0500 Les <lelliott5 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Mike:
>> I followed a thread, which began around the 1st of Feb relating to
>> patches for F::Q and tried to patch with the first one which was
>> fairly old.  (This is on a new install of LinuxMint 12 (Deb ver) and
>> GC 2.4.10.)
>> I navigated to the location of F::Q (/usr/share/perl5/Finance) and
>> did patch -p1 /path to patch/Quote.pm.diff.  Nothing happened except
>> for the cursor blinking for over an hour.  It seems I have done
>> something wrong in regards to the patch.
>>
>> I would appreciate any suggestions as to how to make the patches.
>> The man page looks very straightforward. I have downloaded 3 patches
>> that others have reported to have fixed the currency update problem.
>
> I don't really know why your having problems applying the patches.  
> The patch utility has a lot of options and it's sometimes difficult to 
> get them right.  It should never run for more than a second or two 
> however. It normally reads the patch file from stdin, did you leave 
> out the "<" redirection character?  If you entered something like
>
>  patch -p0 patchfile
>
> instead of
>
>  patch -p0 <patchfile
>
> it might appear to hang since it would be reading a patch file from 
> your terminal.
>
> If all you want is the currency fixes, they are in the version of 
> github now.  It might be simpler to download that and install it 
> instead of trying to apply the patches.
>
>          Mike
Mike:
Thanks for your reply:

It appears that I was not using < in the patch. When I did use it, I got 
a message about wrong line number.  I don't know what that means.  (I am 
not technical, just a user.)

The currency fixes is really all I am interested in. Where can I find 
the currency fixes (I don't know what github is or where to find it)?
Thanks,