problem for getting on-line quote

[John Ralls]

On Mar 22, 2014, at 6:17 PM, Stephen Ni <stephenni2000 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Hi John:
>    I downloaded Strawberry Perl, and then try to run the "Install Online Quote Retrieval" command from GnuCash's Start menu folder.  I get the following errors
> 
> Error installing package 'Finance-Quote': Could not locate a PPD file for package Finance-Quote
> * Run gnc-fq-check
> You need to install the following Perl modules:
>    Finance::Quote
> 
> So I ran CPAN client command from Strawberry Perl Start menu folder, and type in
>    install Finance::Quote
> 
> It started to retrieve some tar file and started execution, then I get following errors
> 
> dmake.exe: Error code 129, while making 'blib\arch\auto\Bit\Vector\Vector.dl
>    STBEY/Bit-Vector-7.3.tar.gz
>     C:\strawberry\c\bin\dmake.exe -- NOT OK
>  Running make test
>     Can't test without successful make
> 
> What else can I do?

You mean short of getting a Mac or switching to Linux? Since you probably don't want to do either, and probably also don't want to reformat your hard disk and reinstall Windows, let's try to troubleshoot the problem a bit:

Again, what version of GnuCash?

Please paste in all of the output beginning with downloading the tar file.

Regards,
John Ralls