Downloading Stock Prices - Finance::Quote Problems

[Alan Jaye]

I do not know how or why this has happened but this email came to me apparently by mistake????

Regards

Alan

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-----Original Message----- 
From: Tim Johnson 
Sent: Wednesday, June 18, 2014 11:27 AM 
To: John Ralls 
Cc: gnucash-user at gnucash.org 
Subject: Re: Downloading Stock Prices - Finance::Quote Problems 

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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