Downloading Stock Prices - Finance::Quote Problems

[Richard Lindgren]

I'm puzzled on how to respond to the following: You need to install the
following Perl modules:
  Date::Manip

Use your system's package manager to install them, This is the message that
I get when I run the utility within GnuCash.
How do I do this?
Richard


On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 4:36 AM, Erik Colson <eco at ecocode.net> wrote:

> 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 package, which is pretty outdated now.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
> --
> erik colson
>