Online quotes works for stock but not for currencies

[John Ralls]

> On Jul 6, 2016, at 1:55 PM, Geert Janssens <geert.gnucash at kobaltwit.be> wrote:
> 
> On Wednesday 06 July 2016 02:23:38 James E wrote:
>> John wrote
>> 
>> "Yes, as a first step you absolutely should use gnc-fq-update to bring
>> your Finance::Quote up to date. The current version is 1.38. Nearly
>> all of the changes since 1.17 have been to keep up with changes to
>> the various websites from which it gets data."
>> 
>> I tried to run the command  " Sudo gnc-fq-update "   but it failed .
>> See log :
>> 
>> jm at jm-OptiPlex-9020:/$ sudo gnc-fq-update
>> [sudo] password for jm:
>> sudo: gnc-fq-update: command not found
>> jm at jm-OptiPlex-9020:/$
>> 
>> Do you suggest that  I  now  get a more recent version  of of GnuCash
>> from getdeb: http://www.getdeb.net/software/gnucash . I assume that
>> this will have a more recent version of Finance:Quote.
>> 
> I doubt that. Getdeb provides a more recent version of gnucash. Finance::Quote however is an 
> independent package. I don't see it in the getdeb repositories and certainly not in 
> http://www.getdeb.net/software/gnucash
> 
> While it's good to get a more recent version of gnucash, this alone will not solve your quotes 
> downloading issue.
> 
> I'm not on Ubuntu, so I can't help you much further. There are other users who are and may 
> be able to offer better support. Otherwise you can also ask around on the Ubuntu forums.

You can always do what gnc-fq-update does:
sudo cpan -i Date::Manip
sudo cpan -i Finance::Quote

Answer "yes" to all of the questions just as you would for gnc-fq-update.

Regards,
John Ralls