[GNC] Trouble installing Strawberry perl

[Geoff]

Hi David Carlson

The "getperl.vbs" script is a GnuCash file, not Strawberry:

https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash-on-windows/blob/master/extra_dist/getperl.vbs

I am running GnuCash v4.8 on Windows 10 and it is located here:
C:\Program Files (x86)\gnucash\bin\

However, I recommend that you:
(1) Install Strawberry Perl directly from https://strawberryperl.com/ 
and not via GnuCash.
(2) Reboot.
(3) Confirm that Perl is working:
(3a) Command prompt
(3b) perl -v
(4) Install Finance-Quote from GnuCash, which uses the "gnc-fq-update" 
Perl script also located in C:\Program Files (x86)\gnucash\bin\

Hope this helps.

Regards

Geoff
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On 1/11/2021 6:49 am, David Carlson wrote:
> Thank you David.  I tried the Install online price retrieval for GnuCash
> script again and it still gives the error about the missing .vbs file.  Do
> you know how that file is supposed to be created?
> 
> On Sun, Oct 31, 2021, 2:31 PM David H <hellvee at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> David,
>>
>> Seems like the StrawberryPerl web page is back up, suggest you give it
>> another shot.
>>
>> Cheers David H.
>>
>>
>> On Mon, 1 Nov 2021 at 03:33, David Carlson <david.carlson.417 at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> I am trying to install Perl with the script in the GnuCash program folder
>>> in Windows 10.   I accidentally forgot to use administrator rights the
>>> first time,  repeated with rights, but it fails with error Input error:
>>> Could not find script file "C:\Windows\system32\getperl.vbs".
>>>
>>> I also found that the https://strawberryperl ... download page is
>>> inaccessible, one needs to use a different route to download strawberry
>>> Perl 5.32.1.1 32 or 64 .msi.
>>>
>>> Can someone help me get out of this rabbit hole?
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