Downloading Stock Prices - Finance::Quote Problems

[Ronal B Morse]

On 06/30/2014 12:31 PM, Richard Lindgren wrote:
> This is getting real crazy! I have basically removed everything from my
> computer and re-installed Windows 7 again.
> I then installed Strawberry 5.20. Then I went into command Prompt and
> installed from Cpan, Finance::Quote 1.35. I rebooted and then installed
> GnuCash 2.6.3 Now I go into the utility of GnuCash for the retieval of
> stock prices as the system Administrator and it comes back with this
> statement: Did not find ssleay32.dll in current directory.
> Please start this cmd file in the bin directory created by the setup.exe. I
> have no idea how to do this. I'm LOST! Please help me.
> Richard
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> On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 9:47 AM, Richard Lindgren <
> richard_lindgren at outlook.com> wrote:
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Richard, it's not you and I commend your perseverance.

I just setup a new Windows 7 machine under VirtualBox and tried to 
install GunCash for Windows on that.  The GnuCash part went fine.

Tried to install online price quotes retrieval.  That turned into a 
turbo-compound reciprocating goat rope of the first order.

Got the missing date::manip module error.  There's no way I can see that 
someone short of a deeply committed hobbyist or professional programmer 
could figure out what to do next.  I only figured it out because the 
Windows 7 virtual machine is a throw-away and I didn't care if I bombed 
it or not.

After a long series of trial and errors (mostly errors) Here's what I 
did that worked:

After installing Gnucash into Windows 7, open a Windows command prompt 
(click on start and enter "cmd" (without the quotes) into the start menu 
search dialogue box).

At the blinking cursor prompt in the cmd window type: ppm<enter> (where 
<enter> means press the <enter> key).

the prompt will change to: ppm>   (if it doesn't, stop. The rest of this 
won't help you).

enter at the prompt (ppm>)     search Date-Manip<enter> (note the 
capitialization and the hyphen vs the :: in the search term)

That should return a response indicating "Packages available from..."

if that's the case, enter at the prompt (ppm>)     install Date-Manip<enter>

That should result in a great deal of monkey motion. When it is over it 
should indicate success.  I can't remember the exact message here, I was 
just surprised that anything happened at all.  Still clueless as to what 
to do next, I simply guessed that I should try the thing that failed 
originally, again (what was that about insanity and doing the same 
things over, expecting a different result?)

Go back to the Windows start menu, click on "All programs", then click 
on "GnuCash".  Then, click on "Install Online Price Retrieval".  More 
monkey motion. There may be errors reported, but it should end with 
"Installation succeeded" and then "Press any key to continue".  That 
will close the installation window.

Take a deep breath and start GnuCash.  Open the accounts tree and note 
the value of the portfolio you will be updating.  Use the price 
retrieval function (tool > price editor > Get Quotes) to update. On my 
system this happens very quickly and there is no confirmation dialogue. 
You should either get an error message or the value of the portfolio 
will change, indicating the quotes were downloaded and applied 
successfully to the assets (assuming the assets were properly set up in 
the price editor).

Hope this helps.  Hope this doesn't make things worse for you.

RBM