Finance::Quote will not install

[Dave H]

Yes it looks like it :-(  I'll double check the Win 7 laptop when I get
home from work tonight - I'm pretty sure I have the start menu gnucash
group on it.

Cheers Dave H.

On 9 August 2016 at 12:05, Elmar Schmeisser <eschmeisser at nc.rr.com> wrote:

> I'm running windows 7 and there is no start menu folder much less any
> entry for this.  But I found the install-fq-mods.cmd, ran it and it
> opened a command window, which scrolled and did lots of stuff, and was
> occasionally filled with lots of red lines (892 bytes of stuff when
> copy/pasted into a notepad file, which I can post if asked but won't to
> save bandwidth) and which ended with the following:
>
> <snipped lots of stuff preceeding>
> Running make for E/EC/ECOCODE/Finance-Quote-1.38.tar.gz
> Warning: Prerequisite 'HTML::TableExtract => 0' for
> 'ECOCODE/Finance-Quote-1.38.
> tar.gz' failed when processing 'MSISK/HTML-TableExtract-2.13.tar.gz'
> with 'make
> => NO'. Continuing, but chances to succeed are limited.
> Warning: Prerequisite 'DateTime => 0' for
> 'ECOCODE/Finance-Quote-1.38.tar.gz' fa
> iled when processing 'DROLSKY/DateTime-1.36.tar.gz' with 'make => NO'.
> Continuin
> g, but chances to succeed are limited.
> 'dmake' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
> operable program or batch file.
>   ECOCODE/Finance-Quote-1.38.tar.gz
>   dmake -- NOT OK
>
> * Run gnc-fq-check
>
>
> You need to install the following Perl modules:
>   Finance::Quote
>
> Use your system's package manager to install them,
> or run 'gnc-fq-update' as root.
> missing-lib
>
> An error occurred, see above.
>
> Press any key to continue . . .
>
> So things obviously failed.
>
> On 8/8/2016 9:37 PM, Dave H wrote:
> > Elmar,
> >
> > What version of Windows are you running ?
> >
> > I'm using Win 10 Enterprise and it's there and is called "Unstall Online
> > Price Retrieval For Gnucash".  I also run Win 10 Home and I'm pretty sure
> > it's there in the same place.  Ditto Win 7 and Win 8.
> >
> > On the Enterprise version it's a shortcut that is installed in
> > C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\GnuCash - the
> shortcut
> > points to a Windows Command Script "C:\Program Files
> > (x86)\gnucash\bin\install-fq-mods.cmd" and is set to start in
> "C:\Program
> > Files (x86)\gnucash\bin".
> >
> > Hope this helps.
> >
> > Cheers Dave H.
> >
> >
> > On 9 August 2016 at 10:00, Elmar Schmeisser <eschmeisser at nc.rr.com>
> wrote:
> >
> >> Somewhat similar query - the help file says:
> >>
> >> The Windows installer from the GnuCash home page comes with a small
> >> helper program to install Finance::Quote for you. You can find it in the
> >> Start Menu under the GnuCash group and is called “Install Online Price
> >> Retrieval”.
> >>
> >> but when I installed gnucash, I got no start menu group and I do not see
> >> anywhere where this helper program exists ...
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> On 8/8/2016 7:19 AM, dantonison wrote:
> >>> I have GnuCash 2.6.13 and Strawberry Perl 5.18.2.2 installed on Windows
> >> 10.
> >>> When I run "Install Online Price Retrieval for GnuCash" the Perl module
> >>> "Finance::Quote" is not installed.
> >> ...
> >>
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