Online quotes works for stock but not for currencies

[Chris Good]

> Message: 4
> Date: Wed, 6 Jul 2016 16:39:12 -0700
> From: John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us>
> To: James E <jimmy142 at hotmail.co.uk>
> Cc: GNU Cash User <gnucash-user at gnucash.org>
> Subject: Re: Online quotes works for stock but not for currencies
> Message-ID: <EFEDF9B7-71A6-49B4-A252-224E95BD8697 at ceridwen.us>
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> 
> > 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

Hi James,

I'm on Ubuntu 16.04 and I suggest you upgrade to that if you're not already
on 16.04.
I also suggest using the getdeb to install as it contains GnuCash 2.6.12.
If you already have GnuCash installed from the standard Ubuntu repositories
(Ubuntu Software Centre, not getdeb), then you should uninstall that before
installing the getdeb.
See http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Ubuntu
Use the getdeb package for Ubuntu 15.10 as it's not listed for 16.04 yet.
>From memory it also installs Finance::Quote 1.38 as package
libfinance-quote-perl which may be why the packagers leave gnc-fq-update out
of the package as it should be updated by the Ubuntu software package
maintenance programs.

Hopefully the getdeb will be updated to GnuCash 2.6.13 soon - they usually
don't take too long.

I cannot remember if this has been mentioned but there was a recent change
to GnuCash in how it holds currency conversions. I cannot remember the
details exactly but instead of holding the conversion from say currency1 to
currency2, it may now be holding it as currency2 to currency1. Check under
Currencies in the Tools, Price Editor window.

Regards,
Chris Good
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