Downloading Stock Prices - Finance::Quote Problems

[David Carlson]

On 6/30/2014 4:27 PM, Ronal B Morse wrote:
>
> 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
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 9:47 AM, Richard Lindgren <
>> richard_lindgren at outlook.com> wrote:
>>
> 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
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Wow!
I know that computers have gotten incredibly more difficult to use over
the last several years, but this seems to take the cake.  When I started
using GnuCash I was running Windows XP and I started with GnuCash 2.2
something if I recall.  I set up online price retrieval early on and I
have had almost no problems as I migrated to Windows 7 and eventually to
GnuCash 2.4.13.  I never ran into these problems that Richard is
having.  Considering all the other things that have gotten more
difficult such as sending faxes (nearly impossible in Windows 7)
scanning documents, sending emails, now downloading stock prices is
added to the list.  It looks like something went awry in the Perl
implementation evolution or elsewhere to create that quagmire.

I hope that you get it resolved soon and that the developers are able to
fix things to work correctly again.

David C