Downloading Stock Prices - Finance::Quote Problems
James E
jimmy142 at hotmail.co.uk
Thu Jul 3 08:30:42 EDT 2014
Thank you Ronal Morse for solving my Downloading Stock Prices errorI have
been trying to install Gnucash Online Quotes in Windows XP for more than
a week . I had received the missing Date::Manip related error and had
been floundering round trying to fix it .
Your suggestions using ppm to install Date-Manip worked .
Thank you once again .
James
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> On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 9:47 AM, Richard Lindgren <
> richard_lindgren@> wrote:
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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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