[GNC] My MacOS Finance::Quote Successful Tweaks

[Ken Farley]

Hope it works out for you. I noticed there are sporadic questions
about this kind of thing and thought it might be nice to have a place
where all the stuff that worked for someone (me, in this case) is
spelled out in a straightforward fashion, rather than spread over a
whole heap of messages.
So glad the GTK-3 stuff I figured out for 3.11 is still okay for 4.8.
Also, the speed of loading on the M1 is really remarkable. What used
to take a bit of time is almost a blink and you miss it.

On Thu, Nov 4, 2021 at 11:36 PM David H <hellvee at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Ken,
>
> Thanks for that, I haven't had FQ running on Big Sur since I upgraded to it during the beta's :-)  Will try that on my iMac running Big Sur in a moment.  It came good on my MacBook Pro after upgrading to Monterey and running gnc-fq-update I think it was but I still haven't got it running on BS.  The modules you listed are all ones that FQ Update had issues with when I tried to update on BS so here goes :-)
>
> Cheers David H.
>
>
> On Fri, 5 Nov 2021 at 12:58, Ken Farley <farleykj at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Not a question, just my notes on how I got Finance::Quote to work on a
>> new Mac Mini M1.
>>
>> Operating system is OS X 11.6 (Big Sur)
>>
>> GnuCash Version is 4.8 (from the -2.dmg)
>>
>> My initial install left me unable to download quotes (via
>> Finance::Quote). Research online eventually led to a Reddit discussion
>> about similar problems. Apparently the root cause of the trouble was
>> that module Mozilla::CA provides certificates for inquiries, but was not
>> installed with the  default Perl. Sequence of installs necessary for
>> success was:
>>
>> sudo cpan -i B::Keywords
>> sudo cpan -i Test2
>> sudo cpan -i DateTime
>> sudo cpan -i DateTime::Locale
>> sudo cpan -i DateTime::Format::Strptime
>> sudo cpan -i Mozilla::CA
>>
>> Once those are all done then go to:
>>
>> /Applications/Gnucash/Contents/Resources/bin
>>
>> and run the Finance::Quote fixing script:
>>
>> sudo ./gnc-fq-update
>>
>> After all the above, all the wonderful quotes were downloaded
>> beautifully. Now, if I could only get the courage to "upgrade" to
>> Monterey...
>>
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