problem for getting on-line quoteIf

[John Ralls]

On Mar 16, 2014, at 7:15 PM, Stephen Ni <stephenni2000 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Hi John:
> 1) I am currently using ActiveState perl 5.16.3 and gnucash 2.4.13 on window 7.  When I tried to run the "Install Online Quote Retrieval" command from GnuCash's Start menu folder, it only recognizes FQ v 1.18 and only install that version
> 2) I tried to run ActiveState Perl package manager from the Start menu.  It shows FQ v1.18 installed.  It shows available version is also 1.18, and nothing else.  It does not give me any option to pick a different upgrade
> 3) I tried to delete ActiveState Perl 5.16.3, and only newer version from their website is 5.18.  After I download this version, its install version of FQ is still v1.18.  Again no option to upgrade to any new version of FQ
> 
> What else can I try?


If you're not using perl for anything else, just remove ActiveState perl and run Install Online Quote Retrieval again. It will install Strawberry perl for you, and that's known to work.
Otherwise, downgrade (maybe it's upgrade since ActiveState 5.16 is broken) to ActiveState 5.14, which provides Finance::Quote 1.27 (see http://code.activestate.com/ppm/Finance-Quote/ for what versions work on which ActiveState versions).

If you absolutely require ActiveState perl 5.16 for something, you'll have to figure out a way to hide it from GnuCash so that you can use Strawberry for Finance::Quote.

Regards,
John Ralls