Downloading Stock Prices - Finance::Quote Problems

[Vladimir Lukyanov]

yes, I was raising a separate (installation) issue myself


On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 5:27 PM, Tim Johnson <timnjane at hotmail.co.uk> wrote:

> Hi John,
>
> Thanks for responding so quickly.
>
> With my rudimentary CLI skills, I ran gnc-fq-update which produced page
> after page of activity, interspersed with a question about "prebend" (or
> something) which I answered "yes" to each time as that seemed the most
> appropriate answer.
>
> The screenshot of the final screen is attached, which sadly means nothing
> to me.  Unfortunately, the "Finance::Quote not installed properly" still
> comes up in GnuCash Edit Security.
>
> I also ran Date::Manip from Synaptics as suggested by Vladimir as I
> thought he was offering a suggestion, but now I'm not sure whether he was
> just raising an issue himself??
>
> One additional question if I may - have I compromised any support I might
> enjoy from PCLinuxOS MATE by running this update which seems to have made
> hundreds of changes?
>
> Kind Regards,
>
>
> Tim
>
> On 17/06/2014 22:42, John Ralls wrote:
>
>> On Jun 17, 2014, at 2:19 PM, Tim Johnson <timnjane at hotmail.co.uk> wrote:
>>
>>  Hi,
>>>
>>> I am a very new Linux user who is seriously looking at moving away from
>>> Windows XP as my trusty PC has developed a recent warning saying I do not
>>> have a genuine version of Windows despite having used it for years (with a
>>> genuine version - I've got the CD, but it won't allow me to activate it!).
>>>  I have never used command line systems in 30 years of PC work, and I am
>>> pretty good GUI software user, so I'm on scary new ground here, but I love
>>> the Linux concept.
>>>
>>> I am looking at alternatives for various key Windows packages to manage
>>> a complete migration to Linux including MS Money, and GnuCash looks to be
>>> the ship's biscuit for that one.
>>>
>>> I am struggling to get stock prices into an investment account though,
>>> as it tells me I don't have Finance::Quote installed properly.  Well, I
>>> think I do, but the version installed by Synaptics on my PCLinuxOS system
>>> (perl-Finance-Quote) seems to be only at version 1.17.  I've tried to force
>>> a more recent version, but that doesn't work.
>>>
>>> I've read and re-read the GnuCash manual but can't see where I've gone
>>> wrong.  It's not the end of the world if I have to update prices manually
>>> with this version of Linux, but if the functionality is there, I would
>>> really like to be able to use it.
>>>
>>> Thanks in anticipation for any advice.
>>>
>>>  Did you run gnc-fq-update? If so, what output did you get?
>>
>> Regards,
>> John Ralls
>>
>>
>>
>>
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