Quotes

[Steven Anter]

try this. first locate your perl directory. in one of the subfolders, there
is a file called usa.pm.  replace it with the attachment which someone from
this user group made available in a related thread. should fix your problem


On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 11:29 AM, Mike Roberts <mike at roberts-engineering.com
> wrote:

> First, let me thank you all for your help.  With the email traffic I've
> seen
> since signing up, I have no clue how you have time for this.
>
> The following detail is partly for my own benefit as well as other Windows
> users.
>
> I am currently running GnuCash 2.4.15 on a Windows Vista PC.  I tried
> GnuCash 2.6.1, but it seemed significantly slower on my old PC and I did
> not
> like the additional real estate used by the tabs due to the "X" that would
> close the tab.  I use GnuCash for personal accounting including a fairly
> detailed investment portfolio.  As a retired engineer, I tend toward anal
> retentive and my current data file is almost 8 MB.
>
> My current version of Perl is 5.10.1 build 1006.  I have not been able to
> find the F::Q version, but even after running GnuCash/Install Online Price
> Retrieval, I am still getting the error.
>
> I am now going to uninstall Perl and reinstall the ActivePerl 5.16.3 build
> 1603.
>
> Done!  Starting GnuCash ... couldn't find Perl ... Get Quotes is grayed out
> in the Price Editor.  Rebooting.  Starting GnuCash ... Application failed
> to
> start because perl510.dll was not found.  I'm guessing perl510.dll was from
> v 5.10.1 as there is a perl516.dll in the Perl directory.  Get Quotes is
> grayed out again.
>
> So ... uninstall and reinstall GnuCash 2.4.15.  Done, starting GnuCash ...
> still not finding perl510.dll.  Get Quotes still grayed out.  Install
> Online
> Price Retrieval ... also failed looking for perl510.dll!  Get Quotes no
> longer grayed out, but doesn't work because perl510.dll not found.
>
> Any ideas?  I guess I can go back to Perl 5.10, but it doesn't have the
> right F::Q.
>
> Mike
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: gnucash-user
> [mailto:gnucash-user-bounces+mike=roberts-engineering.com at gnucash.org] On
> Behalf Of Geert Janssens
> Sent: 02/21/2014 10:44 AM
> To: Erik Colson
> Cc: gnucash-user at gnucash.org
> Subject: Re: Quotes
>
> On Friday 21 February 2014 11:33:38 Erik Colson wrote:
> > Geert Janssens <janssens-geert at telenet.be> writes:
> > > On Thursday 20 February 2014 17:55:59 Steven Anter wrote:
> > >> Don't think you need to know which version of FQ you're using. Just
> > >> download and install the latest ActivePerl and you'll have it
> > >
> > > Did you do this yourself ? Which version of ActivePerl did you
> > > install ?
> > >
> > > You are the first to mention that an updated ActivePerl ships with
> > > the correct F::Q. All others talk of using cpan to update to the
> > > newest F::Q. I know that the F::Q installer script that comes with
> > > GnuCash on Windows will not use cpan when ActivePerl is detected.
> > >
> > > So I'm just asking to be sure.
> >
> > I'm not using Windows, nor Activestate perl, but..
> >
> > look here:
> > http://code.activestate.com/ppm/search:finance::quote/
> >
> > F::Q ppm from activestate is actually 1.20
> >
> > and here you'll see install results:
> > http://code.activestate.com/ppm/Finance-Quote/
> >
> > You'll see that on windows 1.19 is tested on perl 5.14 but not (yet)
> > on perl 5.16. version 1.20 has not yet been tested, but that should
> > appear one of these days. All of this is documented on Activestates'
> > site.
> >
> > best
>
> So downloading a more recent version of ActivePerl will not get you 1.20
> automatically yet ?
>
> Geert
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