[GNC] Finance Quote Not working on MacBook Air M1 chip

[John Ralls]

> On Jun 27, 2021, at 4:05 AM, Deepti Randad via gnucash-user <gnucash-user at gnucash.org> wrote:
> 
> Hallo Folks - 
> 
> I recently installed GnuCash on MacBook Air with the Apple M1 chip - the GnuCash GUI itself seems to be working great. Then I tried installing finance::quote to get stock quotes automatically, however, this has not been working even after a lot of trouble shooting I did. Please find below the steps I have taken. Any help / direction will be appreciated. Thanks.
> 
> Regards,
> Kamlesh
> 
> Finance Quote on MacOS with MacBook Air M1 chip 
> 
> In the GnuCash GUI, I get the following error message in the “Security Editor” screen: 
>> Warning: Finance::Quote not installed properly < 
> and the rest of the fields below this are disabled. 
> I followed the installation instructions on https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Online_Quotes#Installing_Finance::Quote_on_macOS <https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Online_Quotes#Installing_Finance::Quote_on_macOS>
> 
> The about page of the GUI shows:
> Version: 4.5
> Build ID: 4.5+(2021-03-27)
> Finance::Quote: -
> 
> I did the following for installation:
> 
> First, run the gnc-fq-update - this I had to run a couple of times, but it succeeded. 
> 
> Now if I run it, I get the following:
> 
> Date::Manip is up to date (6.85).
> Finance::Quote is up to date (1.49)
> 
> Perldoc gives the following output:
> 
> perldoc -lm Finance::Quote
> /Library/Perl/5.30/Finance/Quote.pm
> 
> Then, I run the following command, gnc-fq-helper
> 
> echo '(yahoo_json "CSCO")' | ./gnc-fq-helper
> 
> This returns the data fetched:
> (("CSCO" (symbol . "CSCO") (gnc:time-no-zone . "2021-06-19 12:00:00") (last . #e52.07) (currency . "USD")))
> 
> Another command I tried:
> 
> ./gnc-fq-dump currency USD EUR
> 1 USD = 0.8428 EUR
> 
> Therefore I am guessing Finance::Quote is working from command line.
> 
> ./gnc-fq-check 
> 
> ("1.49" "adig" "aex" "aiahk" "alphavantage" "amfiindia" "asegr" "asx" "aufunds" "australia" "bamosz" "bet" "bmonesbittburns" "bourso" "bse" "bsero" "canada" "canadamutual" "citywire" "cominvest" "cse" "deka" "dutch" "dwsfunds" "europe" "fetch_live_currencies" "fidelity" "fidelity_direct" "fidelityfixed" "financecanada" "finanzpartner" "finland" "fool" "france" "ftfunds" "ftportfolios" "ftportfolios_direct" "fundlibrary" "goldmoney" "greece" "hex" "hu" "hufund" "hungary" "hustock" "iexcloud" "indiamutual" "known_currencies" "lerevenu" "maninv" "morningstar" "morningstarau" "morningstarch" "morningstarjp" "mstaruk" "nasdaq" "nyse" "nz" "nzx" "platinum" "romania" "seb_funds" "sixfunds" "sixshares" "stockhousecanada_fund" "tdefunds" "tdwaterhouse" "tiaacref" "tnetuk" "troweprice" "troweprice_direct" "trustnet" "tsp" "tsx" "uk_unit_trusts" "ukfunds" "unionfunds" "usa" "usfedbonds" "vanguard" "vwd" "yahoo_json" "yahoo_yql" "za" "za_unittrusts"

Try running 
  /Applications/Gnucash.app/Contents/MacOS/Gnucash 
from Terminal. Does that get it working?

Regards,
John Ralls