Price Quotes - problem getting current values

[Jay Ridgley]

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
> 
>         https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user
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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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