Finance quotes problems Mac OS 10.10

John Ralls jralls at ceridwen.us
Sat Sep 5 23:49:36 EDT 2015


> On Sep 5, 2015, at 11:01 AM, Sam Thompson <sfthompson3 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Thanks so much. This worked!
> 

Thanks for the follow-up, but please remember to copy the list on all replies.

Regards,
John Ralls

>> On Aug 23, 2015, at 3:09 AM, John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>>> On Aug 22, 2015, at 1:43 PM, Sam Thompson <sfthompson3 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hi,
>>> 
>>> Hopefully you can help me get finance quote working. I installed it but I get the message “there was a system error while retrieving the quote prices.” 
>>> 
>>> I was looking online and found http://www.gnucash.org/docs/v2.6/C/gnucash-help/acct-create.html#Online-price-setup.
>>> I followed the first step and ran “periodic Finance::Quote.” The module is installed. I tried to run the gnc-fq-dump test program, I get a "command not found" error from terminal. What do I need to do to run the gnc-fq commands?
>> 
>> Provide the full path, which is /Applications/Gnucash.app/Contents/Resources/bin/gnc-fq-dump if you put GnuCash in /Applications.
>> 
>> If gnc-fq-dump works, try also 
>> echo ‘(source “STCK”)’ | /Applications/Gnucash.app/Contents/Resources/bin/gnc-fq-helper
>> substituting a real source and stock symbol. That may complain about a missing Date::Manip which you can install from CPAN:
>> sudo cpan install Date::Manip
>> It will prompt you for your password.
>> 
>> Regards,
>> John Ralls
>> 
> 




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