Downloading Stock Prices - Finance::Quote Problems

[Richard Lindgren]

Ronal,

Your message came just at the right time. I was ready to throw in the towel
and go to manually entering my prices. Your information showed very clearly
how to work with the Command Prompt and was extremely informative for this
non-programmer. I did what you said to install "Date-Manip" and it came
back with the message that the file was not compatible with the perl
module. I was running Strawberry 5.20. Not knowing what you were running, I
uninstalled that program and installed Strawberry 5.18. BINGO! I repeated
the same process and low and behold, it worked. After every change within
the command prompt, I rebooted. I then went to GnuCash 2.63 and started the
utility for retrieving prices. After doing that I again rebooted. I opened
up GnuCash and it worked without any errors appearing.


Boy! What a relief! Now maybe I can get to the normal business at hand. I
want to thank everyone who helped here.

Richard


On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 5:27 PM, Ronal B Morse <ron at morsehouse.com> wrote:

>
> On 06/30/2014 12:31 PM, Richard Lindgren wrote:
>
>> This is getting real crazy! I have basically removed everything from my
>> computer and re-installed Windows 7 again.
>> I then installed Strawberry 5.20. Then I went into command Prompt and
>> installed from Cpan, Finance::Quote 1.35. I rebooted and then installed
>> GnuCash 2.6.3 Now I go into the utility of GnuCash for the retieval of
>> stock prices as the system Administrator and it comes back with this
>> statement: Did not find ssleay32.dll in current directory.
>> Please start this cmd file in the bin directory created by the setup.exe.
>> I
>> have no idea how to do this. I'm LOST! Please help me.
>> Richard
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 9:47 AM, Richard Lindgren <
>> richard_lindgren at outlook.com> wrote:
>>
>>  Richard, it's not you and I commend your perseverance.
>
> I just setup a new Windows 7 machine under VirtualBox and tried to install
> GunCash for Windows on that.  The GnuCash part went fine.
>
> Tried to install online price quotes retrieval.  That turned into a
> turbo-compound reciprocating goat rope of the first order.
>
> Got the missing date::manip module error.  There's no way I can see that
> someone short of a deeply committed hobbyist or professional programmer
> could figure out what to do next.  I only figured it out because the
> Windows 7 virtual machine is a throw-away and I didn't care if I bombed it
> or not.
>
> After a long series of trial and errors (mostly errors) Here's what I did
> that worked:
>
> After installing Gnucash into Windows 7, open a Windows command prompt
> (click on start and enter "cmd" (without the quotes) into the start menu
> search dialogue box).
>
> At the blinking cursor prompt in the cmd window type: ppm<enter> (where
> <enter> means press the <enter> key).
>
> the prompt will change to: ppm>   (if it doesn't, stop. The rest of this
> won't help you).
>
> enter at the prompt (ppm>)     search Date-Manip<enter> (note the
> capitialization and the hyphen vs the :: in the search term)
>
> That should return a response indicating "Packages available from..."
>
> if that's the case, enter at the prompt (ppm>)     install
> Date-Manip<enter>
>
> That should result in a great deal of monkey motion. When it is over it
> should indicate success.  I can't remember the exact message here, I was
> just surprised that anything happened at all.  Still clueless as to what to
> do next, I simply guessed that I should try the thing that failed
> originally, again (what was that about insanity and doing the same things
> over, expecting a different result?)
>
> Go back to the Windows start menu, click on "All programs", then click on
> "GnuCash".  Then, click on "Install Online Price Retrieval".  More monkey
> motion. There may be errors reported, but it should end with "Installation
> succeeded" and then "Press any key to continue".  That will close the
> installation window.
>
> Take a deep breath and start GnuCash.  Open the accounts tree and note the
> value of the portfolio you will be updating.  Use the price retrieval
> function (tool > price editor > Get Quotes) to update. On my system this
> happens very quickly and there is no confirmation dialogue. You should
> either get an error message or the value of the portfolio will change,
> indicating the quotes were downloaded and applied successfully to the
> assets (assuming the assets were properly set up in the price editor).
>
> Hope this helps.  Hope this doesn't make things worse for you.
>
> RBM
>
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