[GNC] Enable Online Stock Price Updating in GnuCash

[Geoff]

Hi Jai

It looks like the installation of the perl module Date::Manip which is 
required for Finance::Quote did not complete successfully.  This seems 
to be a common problem on Windows - see for example this thread:
http://gnucash.1415818.n4.nabble.com/GNC-Trouble-Installing-Online-Price-Retrieval-Tool-td4726267.html

To run the "gnc-fq-update" script again, you need to:
(1) Open a command prompt - possibly as Administrator depending on how 
your PC is set up.
(2) Change directory to "C:\Program Files (x86)\gnucash\bin\"
(3) Run "gnc-fq-update" - it is a perl script.
(4) Wait patiently, it takes a long time!

See attached screenshot for details.

Hope this helps.

Regards

Geoff
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On 4/06/2021 2:37 pm, Jai Rao wrote:
> Sir / Madam,
> 
> I am trying to enable Online Stock Price Updating in GnuCash - (in Windows 10).
> 
>    *   I have installed Strawberry Perl
> 
>       *   Then I ran the "Install Online Price Retrieval for GnuCash" - from the Start Menu
> 
>          *   This goes thru a long process in the CMD Prompt (Shell) window
> 
>             *   It seems to make it to the end - see picture below:
>             *   [cid:6644e8d2-a3a2-4004-9571-53b898113207]
>             *   Then I open a new CMD Prompt and type:  "perldoc Finance::Quote"
> 
>                *   It says that there is no documentation for this
> 
>    *   I then tried to go to the GnuCash Wiki page - but I was not able to get anyhere.
> I also could not figure out how to do the Root Shell to run "gnc-fq-update"
> 
> Can you please let me know what to do?
> Thanks,
> Jai Rao
> 
> 
> 
> 
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