[GNC] GnuCash on macOS Big Sur "Finance::Quote isn't installed properly"

Thu Jan 21 20:43:16 EST 2021

Hello all, thank you for replying. I'm new to this email list.

Dave, I do have an M1 Mac. Maybe that's part of the problem.

Chris, how do you reinstall F::Q? The "perl -MCPAN -e shell" doesn't have an uninstall option. I did manually upgrade F::Q though, no change. Gnucash-cli still thinks it's installed improperly.

Thanks,
Justin

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On Thursday, January 21st, 2021 at 7:05 PM, <davelist at mac.com> wrote:

> Chris, do you have an M1 or Intel Mac?
> 

> > On Jan 21, 2021, at 6:02 PM, Chris Graves mohavebaked at gmail.com wrote:
> > 

> > Just another point of information, I had the same issue, but it was resolved after reinstalling F::Q as John mentions below.
> > 

> > > On Jan 21, 2021, at 2:38 PM, davelist--- via gnucash-user gnucash-user at gnucash.org wrote:
> > > 

> > > > On Jan 21, 2021, at 12:12 PM, John Ralls jralls at ceridwen.us wrote:
> > > > 

> > > > > On Jan 19, 2021, at 8:32 PM, Justin via gnucash-user gnucash-user at gnucash.org wrote:
> > > > > 

> > > > > Hello everyone,
> > > > > 

> > > > > I have an issue with GnuCash (4.4) and Finance::Quote (1.49) on macOS Big Sur (11.0). Despite not being officially supported, GnuCash itself works great, with the exception of Finance::Quote. The "get quotes" button in the Price Database is grayed out and the Security Editor has the warning "Finance::Quote isn't installed properly." When running Gnucash-cli, there is a similar error:
> > > > > 

> > > > > > $ /Applications/Gnucash.app/Contents/MacOS/Gnucash-cli --quotes get /Users/username/Documents/Finances/Tracking/finances.gnucash --debug
> > > > > > 

> > > > > > Application Path /Applications/Gnucash.app/Contents/MacOS/Gnucash-cli
> > > > > 

> > > > > > (process:2277): gnc.gui-WARNING **: 22:01:17.540: [mac_set_languages()] Language list: en:en_US:C
> > > > > > 

> > > > > > -   22:01:17 INFO <gnc.backend.dbi> [gnc_module_init_backend_dbi] 3 DBD drivers found
> > > > > > -   22:01:17 INFO <gnc.backend.dbi> [gnc_module_init_backend_dbi] Driver: pgsql
> > > > > > -   22:01:17 INFO <gnc.backend.dbi> [gnc_module_init_backend_dbi] Driver: sqlite3
> > > > > > -   22:01:17 INFO <gnc.backend.dbi> [gnc_module_init_backend_dbi] Driver: mysql
> > > > > > -   22:01:17 INFO <gnc.gui> [Gnucash::CoreApp::start] System locale returned (null)
> > > > > > -   22:01:17 INFO <gnc.gui> [Gnucash::CoreApp::start] Effective locale set to en_US.UTF-8.
> > > > > > -   22:01:17 INFO <gnc.app-utils.gsettings> [gnc_gsettings_register_cb] schema: general, key: retain-days, settings_ptr: 0x7fde7e839430, handler_id: 1
> > > > > > -   22:01:17 INFO <gnc.app-utils.gsettings> [gnc_gsettings_register_cb] schema: general, key: retain-type-never, settings_ptr: 0x7fde7e839430, handler_id: 2
> > > > > > -   22:01:17 INFO <gnc.app-utils.gsettings> [gnc_gsettings_register_cb] schema: general, key: retain-type-days, settings_ptr: 0x7fde7e839430, handler_id: 3
> > > > > > -   22:01:17 INFO <gnc.app-utils.gsettings> [gnc_gsettings_register_cb] schema: general, key: retain-type-forever, settings_ptr: 0x7fde7e839430, handler_id: 4
> > > > > > -   22:01:17 INFO <gnc.app-utils.gsettings> [gnc_gsettings_register_cb] schema: general, key: file-compression, settings_ptr: 0x7fde7e839430, handler_id: 5
> > > > > >     

> > > > > >     No quotes retrieved. Finance::Quote isn't installed properly.
> > > > > > -   22:01:17 INFO <gnc.engine> [gnc_hook_lookup] no hook lists
> > > > > 

> > > > > The error message above isn't particularly useful. It gets printed here:
> > > > > 

> > > > > https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash/blob/1e7433daf3307fb3e6ff6d479aacb22d42941fda/gnucash/gnucash-commands.cpp#L91
> > > > > 

> > > > > I'm pretty sure that Finance::Quote itself is installed properly. I'm not really sure why GnuCash does not recognize it.
> > > > > 

> > > > > > $ sudo gnc-fq-update
> > > > > > 

> > > > > > Reading '/Users/username/.cpan/Metadata'
> > > > > > 

> > > > > > Database was generated on Wed, 20 Jan 2021 02:29:03 GMT
> > > > > > 

> > > > > > Date::Manip is up to date (6.83).
> > > > > > 

> > > > > > Finance::Quote is up to date (1.49).
> > > > > 

> > > > > A basic query shows that it does work:
> > > > > 

> > > > > > $ echo '(yahoo_json "CSCO")' | /Applications/Gnucash.app/Contents/Resources/bin/gnc-fq-helper
> > > > > > 

> > > > > > (("CSCO" (symbol . "CSCO") (gnc:time-no-zone . "2021-01-19 12:00:00") (last . #e45.19) (currency . "USD")))
> > > > 

> > > > BigSur absolutely is supported. What's not yet available yet is a native build for Apple Silicon, but I've found so far that the Intel build of GnuCash works fine with Rosetta2.
> > > > 

> > > > The BigSur upgrade seems to have messed up perl; I had to reinstall F::Q to get it working after I upgraded, but one could also set $PERL5LIB in the environment to include the old /Library/perl/5.18 as a workaround. If you did that in a shell rc file it would make gnc-fq-helper work from terminal but not from GnuCash when run from LaunchServices.
> > > > 

> > > > Does F::Q work when starting GnuCash from the terminal?
> > > > 

> > > > Regards,
> > > > 

> > > > John Ralls
> > > 

> > > I can confirm the same issue - quotes work from the command line (after re-installing finance quote) but in gnucash, the "get quotes" button is disabled. I am running this on an M1 Mac (so obviously Big Sur). My old Mac (where quotes work) is running Catalina (and the M1 Mac was set up from a Time Machine backup of the old Maco) so I don't know if it's a M1 issue or a Big Sur issue.
> > > 

> > > Justin, are you using an M1 Mac?
> > > 

> > > Thanks,
> > > 

> > > Dave
> > > 

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