Price Quotes - problem getting current values
Jay Ridgley
jridgley2 at austin.rr.com
Sun Dec 31 16:45:55 EST 2017
On 12/31/2017 02:00 PM, David Carlson wrote:
> For users with similar issues another place to check:
> https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/FAQ#Q:_Why_doesn.27t_online_quoting_work.3F
>
> David C
>
> On Sun, Dec 31, 2017 at 6:42 AM, Jay Ridgley <jridgley2 at austin.rr.com
> <mailto:jridgley2 at austin.rr.com>> wrote:
>
> On 12/30/2017 11:43 PM, Tommy Trussell wrote:
>
>
> On Sat, Dec 30, 2017 at 5:17 PM, Jay Ridgley
> <jridgley2 at austin.rr.com <mailto:jridgley2 at austin.rr.com>
> <mailto:jridgley2 at austin.rr.com
> <mailto:jridgley2 at austin.rr.com>>> wrote:
>
> Hi Y'all,
>
> I just tried to obtain the current prices for my
> investments using
> the Price Editor --> Get Quotes
>
> The response was:
>
> There was an unknown error while retrieving the price quotes.
>
> How do I correct the problem?
>
> I am running Ubuntu 16.04.3 LTS with GnuCash 2.6.12
> (This copy was built from rev ed11f6d+ on 2016-04-18.)
>
>
> There is a section in the FAQ that covers this:
>
> https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/FAQ#Q:_How_do_I_fix_a_.22system_error.22_or_.22unknown_error.22_when_getting_stock_quotes.3F
> <https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/FAQ#Q:_How_do_I_fix_a_.22system_error.22_or_.22unknown_error.22_when_getting_stock_quotes.3F>
>
> Note that the Finance Quote functions have been discussed a LOT
> on this list over the past few months due to circumstances
> outside of GnuCash developers' control. After you read the
> sections in the FAQ, if your installation is still misbehaving,
> you might also check the archives for this email list
>
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> Thanks Tommy,
>
> After reading things over I tried to do some checking...
>
> Opened a new terminal and entered the following:
>
> sudo perl /usr/bin/gnc-fq-update
>
> This is the error message:
>
> Can't open perl script "/usr/bin/gnc-fq-update": No such file or
> directory
>
> gnc-fq-check ran correctly and listed ("1.38"..."yahoo"...)
>
> Do I not have the Finance::Quote package properly installed? If so
> how can I get it, I installed/updated the following packages when my
> system was last built:
>
> gnucash 1:2.12-1
> gnucash-common 1:2.12-1
> gnucash-docs 2.6.12-1
>
> /usr/bin contains several gnc-fq files but update is not one of them!
>
> Ideas?
>
> Jay
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Thanks David,
The latest version of libfinance-quote-perl that I have available is
1.38. Where can I obtain 1.41 or later that is compatible with my system
Ubuntu 16.04.3 LTS with GnuCash 2.6.12 (This copy was built from rev
ed11f6d+ on 2016-04-18.)?
Cheers, Jay
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Jay Ridgley
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