Online quotes works for stock but not for currencies

[Geert Janssens]

On Wednesday 06 July 2016 14:00:31 Plutocrat wrote:
> Hiya,
> 
> John Ralls wrote on Wednesday, 06 July, 2016 12:24 PM:
> > gnc-fq-update is one of the perl scripts that are GnuCash's
> > interface to Finance::Quote. It should be installed in the
> > appropriate bin directory (usually /usr/bin on Linux/BSD). There
> > are GUI wrappers provided in the Win32 and Mac OS X all-in-one
> > bundles, "Install Online Quotes" and "Update Finance Quote",
> > respectively. If it's really not on your system and you need
> > Finance Quote you need to have a chat with the GnuCash packager for
> > your distro.
> I don't actually use that functionality, so I don't need it (and hence
> my unfamiliarity with it!). But for the record, all I have on my
> system are the following, which are all in /usr/bin gnc-fq-check  
> gnc-fq-dump    gnc-fq-helper
> 
> Not a sign of gnc-fq-update and dpkg -L gnucash / gnucash-common
> doesn't mention it anywhere. I'm using the getdeb packages, latest
> version of gnucash.
> 
As a matter of fact I think this script is not packaged on linux. It's not on Fedora either. I 
never needed it as Fedora packages Finance::Quote and keeps it fairly up to date.

Geert