Stock Price quotes

[Geert Janssens]

On Friday 28 February 2014 05:50:57 fastsnip-bcard at yahoo.com wrote:
> Running Kubuntu latest version and gnucash 2.4.13 built from rbfb59d7+
> on 2013-09-16.
> 
> Recently the gnucash price editor has not been able to download any
> stock quotes. It pops up a window with a list of the stock symbols it
> was unable to find and asks if it should continue. The trouble is,
> the list that it was unable to obtain was ALL of the stocks, about 20
> or so. All of the stocks were set to be obtained from the "multiple"
> tab with Fidelity, etc. as the source. I tried some of the stocks on
> other sources, Yahoo and one other. Made no difference.
> 
> Is this a known problem with others or maybe this is unique to my
> system?
The problem is that Yahoo changed its online api. The solution is to install 
Finance::Quote 1.20. If this is not packaged yet for Kubuntu you should ask for an 
update via the usual Kubuntu package request channel. I don't use kubuntu myself 
so I'm not sure how this is normally done.

Geert