[GNC] My MacOS Finance::Quote Successful Tweaks

[prl]

Ken, thanks from me for that, too.

I'd been able to get Finance::Quote to install from other installation 
instructions for macOS, but when I tried to use it I was getting 
authentication failures when F::Q tried to connect to a server using 
HTTPS. I think it was installing/updating Mozilla::CA that fixed that 
problem for me, probably something to do with the issues around the 
expiry of the DST_Root_CA_X3 certificate.

However, to follow your suggestions, I still needed to use cpan -if for 
B:Keywords, because it failed its installation tests.

Intel Mac, Monterey 12.0.1.

Thanks again,
Peter

On 5/11/21 13:57, Ken Farley 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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