Alphavantage not working in gnucash 2.6.17

[Patrick Alken]

My OS is Ubuntu linux 17.10

and I installed F::Q via CPAN (gnc-fq-dump and gnc-fq-helper work ok 
from the commandline with alphavantage)

On 11/28/2017 07:50 AM, John Ralls wrote:
>
>> On Nov 27, 2017, at 9:57 PM, Patrick Alken <alken at colorado.edu> wrote:
>>
>> Apologies if this has already been asked, but I couldn't find this exact
>> issue in the recent mailings.
>>
>> I have:
>>
>> gnucash: 2.6.17
>>
>> F::Q: 1.47
>>
>> My F::Q works from the command line:
>>
>> ----------
>>
>> $ gnc-fq-dump alphavantage CSCO
>> Finance::Quote fields Gnucash uses:
>>      symbol: CSCO                 <=== required
>>        date: 11/27/2017           <=== recommended
>>    currency: USD                  <=== required
>>        last: 36.8700              <=\
>>         nav:                      <=== one of these
>>       price:                      <=/
>>    timezone:                      <=== optional
>> ----------
>>
>> However inside gnucash price editor I still get the "unknown error when
>> retrieving price quotes".
>>
>> I have unchecked the "Get Online Quotes" flag from ALL of my stocks in
>> the security editor. However the price editor still gives me the same
>> error (unknown error).
>>
>> gnucash --debug shows nothing related to quotes. I only get lines like this:
>>
>> ----
>>
>> * 22:34:53  INFO <gnc.account> [xaccAccountGetBalanceInCurrency]  baln=0/1
>> * 22:34:53  INFO <gnc.account> [xaccAccountGetBalanceInCurrency]  baln=0/100
>> * 22:34:53  INFO <gnc.account> [xaccAccountGetBalanceInCurrency]  baln=0/100
>> * 22:34:53  INFO <gnc.account> [xaccAccountGetBalanceInCurrency]  baln=0/100
>>
>> ----
>>
>> Can anyone advise how to diagnose the issue?
> What OS and how did you install F::Q?
>
> Regards,
> John Ralls
>