Downloading Stock Prices - Finance::Quote Problems

[Dave H]

Richard,

I understood that strawberry Perl was installed by default if perl wasn't
found when installing gnucash. It's interesting that you say you installed
active perl and it installed in your strawberry Perl directory.  Are you
installing active state Perl over the top of strawberry Perl and screwing
up both in the process ?

Also I generally find I need to reboot after installing perl on Windows for
it to work for me.

Cheers Dave H
 On Jun 30, 2014 5:42 PM, "Richard Lindgren" <richard_lindgren at outlook.com>
wrote:

> Fred,
> In my frustrations in trying to make this work, I re-installed Windows 7
> (again) to make sure I didn't mess anything up.
> - I then downloaded and installed GnuCash 2.63
> - I then Installed Activeperl 5.16.3.1603. This was installed in my
> Strawberry folder.
> - I then went into the Perl Package Manager and it went through a database
> sync operation.
> - I then opened up the command prompt and entered "perl -V". That worked
> ok.
> - I then entered: perl -MFinance::Quote -e"print
> ""$Finance::Quote::VERSION\n""". That worked ok.
> - I then went in as the Administrator to start the utility to Retrieve
> Online Price Retrieval. That worked ok.
> - I then opened up up GnuCash and went to the Advanced Portfolio to get my
> download of the prices. STILL, no luck. It comes back and says unable to
> retrieve qoutes for these items.
>
> I don't know what's happening hear but I am not a programmer and I keep
> asking myself, why is this become such a chore and why isn't the updated
> program setup with the correct codes to get these prices. I'm sure there
> must be a good reason, not being a programmer, if I can't get this working
> soon, I will either have to enter these prices manually or use some other
> program or technique. I have attached my last command prompt activity for
> your review. According to that, it is all installed and okay. Do I need to
> make another change? I need help here. Thanks.
>
> Richard
>
>
>
>
> On Fri, Jun 27, 2014 at 12:32 PM, Fred Bone <Fred.Bone at dial.pipex.com>
> wrote:
>
> > On 27 June 2014 at 12:19, Richard Lindgren said:
> >
> > > Here is a copy of my last script that I entered. Not sure if this will
> > > tell what Finance-Quote you need to know or not?
> >
> > Try
> >  perl -MFinance::Quote -e"print ""$Finance::Quote::VERSION\n"""
> >
> >
> >
>
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