Downloading Stock Prices - Finance::Quote Problems

[Erik Colson]

On 30 Jun 2014, at 09:42, Richard Lindgren <richard_lindgren at outlook.com> wrote:

> - 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.

richard,

you installed Finance::Quote 1.18 which isn’t the last version (1.35 is).
this is due to ActivePerl glitch which I asked ActiveState to correct some months ago. Activestate currently has some other stuff to fix and has no time for this for now. As for now they still offer Finance::Quote 1.18 as a package, which is pretty outdated now.

Basically, I recommend to _not_ use ActivePerl, but Strawberry Perl (http://strawberryperl.com). Version 5.20 is OK.

Then open the command prompt and install Finance::Quote from cpan with

   cpanm Finance::Quote

This will install some dependencies and the last version of Finance::Quote.

You can then update to future versions by issuing the same command again.

best
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erik colson