[GNC] Online price retrieval

[John Ralls]

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Sounds like Strawberry Perl didn't get installed all the way. There should be a download in your downloads directory, but if there isn't you can download the latest version from http://strawberryperl.com/. Try installing it by hand. If it doesn't work there's a support link in the upper right corner of that page.

Regards,
John Ralls


> On Jul 15, 2019, at 5:24 PM, durusau at netzero.net wrote:
> 
> Thank you for your response. 
>  
> The Strawberry Perl folder does exist.
> However, there is no object inside that folder named CPAN Client (Or CPAN
> anything, for that matter).
>  
> The contents of the Strawberry Perl folder are:
>    Perl (command line)
>    Strawberry Perl README
>    Strawberry Perl Release notes
>    Related websites
>    Tools
>  
> On the off chance that it might work, I ran CPAN Client as a command from the
> DOS prompt. 
>  
> The first error message was :
>    Couldn't fork at test.p1 line 44.
>    Client couldn't establish a connection to localhost at test.p1 line 57.
>   dmake.exe:  Error code 153, while making "test_dynamic'
>   EESTABR00/Crypt-HCE_SHA-0.75.tar.gz
>  
> So it appearss that something is missing.
>  
> Joe D.
>  
> 
> 
> ---------- Original Message ----------
> From: John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us>
> To: "durusau at netzero.net" <durusau at netzero.net>
> Cc: gnucash-user at gnucash.org
> Subject: Re: [GNC] Online price retrieval
> Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2019 13:28:07 -0700
> 
> 
> 
> > On Jul 14, 2019, at 6:06 PM, durusau at netzero.net wrote:
> > 
> > Does anyone know (or think he/she knows) whether online price retrieval is supposed towork with windows version 6.1.7601?  I ran the install procedure, but it seems to havefailed.  It didn't leave a log file that I could identify, so I don't really know what to look at. Joe D. durusau at netzero.net 
> > ____________________________________________________________
> 
> Yes, it should work on Win7.
> 
> Look in the Start Menu for a folder named Strawberry Perl. If it's there then open it and pick "CPAN Client". You'll get a terminal window with a cpan>prompt. Tell it:
> 
>  install Date::Manip
> 
> and if that completes without errors
> 
>  install Finance::Quote
> 
> If they both complete successfully online quotes should work inside of GnuCash. If either fails or if the Strawberry folder is missing come back with details.
> 
> Regards,
> John Ralls
> 
> 
> 
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