[GNC] Online price retrieval

[John Ralls]

That looks like a problem with Strawberry Perl. There's a support link on their web page.

Regards,
John Ralls


> On Jul 19, 2019, at 6:34 PM, durusau at netzero.net wrote:
> 
> Well, I've made a little progress.  It turns out that I was not aware of the fact that you can't just search
> for cpan client or some such, you have to click on the windows Icon, then all programs, blah, blah....
> and that cpan client is stored under a tools subdirectory.
>  
> Once there, the command install date::Manip seemed to work without errors.
>  
> However, install Finance::Quote did not do so.  I am attaching a sheet that shows a scan of the
> last screen of the installation procedure, and the result of a command that supposedly gives a clue
> as to what the error is.  Unfortunately, the codes cited mean nothing to me as such.  I hope
> whoever is in charge of updating cpan will consider at some time including a command that
> will redirect all output to a discrete file, which would make finding this kind of error much easier.
>  
> Thanks to all who have tried to help.
>  
> 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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