[GNC] My MacOS Finance::Quote Successful Tweaks

[Ken Farley]

Okay, so I put my findings into the Wiki. Turns out it's relatively 
easy. Hopefully if something I wrote is too vague or wrong someone 
correct it. The toughest part was figuring out where to put the stuff.

On 2021-11-07 10:21, Ken Farley wrote:
> 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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