cannot retrieve security quotes with gnucash

[Erik Colson]

Brian Greenwood <bgreenwood at northwoodmortgage.com> writes:

> Hi Erik,
>
> Thanks for your suggestion - that worked, however, when I try to use the
> Tools > Price Editor > Get Quotes inside the gnucash GUI, I get a dialogue
> that says "unable to retrieve quotes for these items", even using an
> example that works at the command line. Can you suggest anything else?

Hi Brian,

Seems your Finance::Quote installation is working fine. What is wrong is
that GnuCash is not detecting the installation of it. You're not the
first and I'm pretty sure you are not the last also ;) You might check
the archives of this mailing list and you'll get a lot of info
already. As the solution is OS related, you need to give us some more
info if you want help.

(Also valid for everyone which has Gnucash/quote retrieval problems)

At least mention:
- your OS and version
- version of Gnucash
- is this an upgrade ?

If possible mention output of these command line commands
- perl -V
- perl -MFinance::Quote -e'print "$Finance::Quote::VERSION\n"'
- perl -MFinance::Quote -e'print $_ . " => " . $INC{$_}. "\n" for keys %INC'

That might help us help you.
--
erik colson