Finance Quote Packaging/Install error: GC 2.6.7 OSX 10.10.4

[John Ralls]

> On Jul 28, 2015, at 4:43 AM, David T. <sunfish62 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> I was receiving the dreaded "There was an unknown error while retrieving the price quotes.” error after I recently upgraded to 2.6.7, and upgraded to OSX 10.10.4 yesterday. F::Q worked as recently as 7/23/2015.
> 
> I reran FinanceQuote Update.app (after re-copying it to the Applications folder), checked F::Q in Terminal with "/Applications/Gnucash.app/Contents/Resources/bin/gnc-fq-dump yahoo AAPL” and received:
> 
> Finance::Quote fields Gnucash uses:
>    symbol: AAPL                 <=== required
>      date: 07/27/2015           <=== required
>  currency: USD                  <=== required
>      last: 122.77               <=\       
>       nav:                      <=== one of these
>     price: 122.77               <=/        
>  timezone:                      <=== optional
> 
> This seemingly indicated a functional F::Q. However, the problem remained. On a lark, I decided to run gnu-fq-helper. I received:
> 
> Can't locate Date/Manip.pm in @INC (you may need to install the Date::Manip module) (@INC contains: /sw/lib/perl5/darwin-thread-multi-2level /sw/lib/perl5 /sw/lib/perl5/darwin /Library/Perl/5.18/darwin-thread-multi-2level /Library/Perl/5.18 /Network/Library/Perl/5.18/darwin-thread-multi-2level /Network/Library/Perl/5.18 /Library/Perl/Updates/5.18.2/darwin-thread-multi-2level /Library/Perl/Updates/5.18.2 /System/Library/Perl/5.18/darwin-thread-multi-2level /System/Library/Perl/5.18 /System/Library/Perl/Extras/5.18/darwin-thread-multi-2level /System/Library/Perl/Extras/5.18 .) at ./gnc-fq-helper line 33.
> BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at ./gnc-fq-helper line 33.
> 
> Installing Date::Manip from CPAN fixed the problem. I hope that the packaging can be fixed to reflect this.

It’s actually gnc-fq-update that gets fixed in the next release.

Regards,
John Ralls