[GNC] Finance::Quote not Working on Macbook

[Geoff]

Hi BP

Background:
To retrieve price data, GnuCash depends on a Perl module called 
Finance-Quote.
Finance-Quote depends on other Perl modules, including one called 
Date-Manip.
Date-Manip in turn also depends on other Perl modules.
These modules may depend on further Perl modules.
Etc etc.
Most of these dependencies are *not* included in the base Perl installation.

Your problem:
Based on the scant information you have provided, it appears that the 
Date-Manip module can't be installed because of one or more missing 
dependencies.

Your task:
Carefully track down all the missing dependencies and install them.


I have no experience with MacOS, but Google is your friend:
https://bioinformaticsonline.com/blog/view/29479/how-to-install-perl-modules-on-mac-os-x-in-easy-steps

Good luck, and report back with more details if you get stuck.

Geoff
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On 16/02/2021 3:55 pm, bdp3 wrote:
> Thanks, John, for the suggestion.  It ran--produced a lot of activity in the Terminal window.  The problems started immediately.
> 
> 	This message was first...
> 		---- Unsatisfied dependencies detected during ----
> 		----       SBECK/Date-Manip-6.83.tar.gz       ----
> 
> 	Then there was a whole lot of this message throughout...
> 		  Make had some problems, won't install
> 		  Delayed until after prerequisites
> 
> 	Also had loads and loads of ...
> 		Warning: prerequisite < blah blah blah > with 'make => NO'. Continuing, but chances to succeed are limited.
> 
> 	And if finally ended with these messages...
> 		Running make test
> 		  Can't test without successful make
> 		Running make install
> 		  Make had returned bad status, install seems impossible
> 
> Is there something else I can try, or another reference I can read?  I don't understand any of it and I'm thinking I did it wrong.
> 
> Thanks for all!  (Even if I don't know what that is.)
> BP
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On 2/15/21, 8:01 PM, "John Ralls" <jralls at ceridwen.us> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
>      > On Feb 15, 2021, at 5:47 PM, bdp3 <bdp3 at gmx.com> wrote:
>      >
>      > Is anyone else having trouble making F:Q work on a Mac?  If not, maybe you can help me—I’m new here and I just don’t ‘get it’!
>      >
>      > I’m using GnuCash_4.4 on Mac OS 10.14 (Mojave).
>      >
>      > I downloaded version 1.49 from SourceForge.  There’s an ‘Applications’ folder at the hard-drive level, and an ‘Applications’ folder at the User folder level; I’ve tried unzipping FQ into both directories and still have no success.  I read the GnuCash wiki on Online Quotes; I have perl installed; I used CPAN; I’m getting lost in the weeds.  The ‘Security Edit’ page (for any given security which I have set up) shows the Online Checkbox greyed-out with the same message familiar to us: “Warning: Finance::Quote not installed properly”.   I also tried running “gnc-fq-check“ and “gnc-fq-update” – No Joy!
>      >
>      > What am I missing?
>      >
>      >
>      >
>      > Thanks much for anything you can tell me!!  (Pictures help – preferably in crayons or watercolors.)
> 
>      The only thing you tried that's right is gnc-fq-update. It needs sudo as shown in https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Online_Quotes#Installing_Finance::Quote_on_macOS_from_a_Terminal_prompt
> 
>      Regards,
>      John Ralls
> 
> 
> 
> 
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