[GNC] Finance::Quote v1.54 Released

[R Losey]

Thanks; I ran the update script... after installing 'make' (which I'm
surprised I didn't have installed already), it churched for 12-14 minutes
and succeeded.

The update script says I am using version 1.54 now.


On Tue, Dec 27, 2022 at 6:12 PM Fross, Michael <michael at fross.org> wrote:

> Hello R Losey,
>
> *cpan update Finance::Quote *
>
> worked for me.  Just another alternative.
>
> Michael
>
> On Tue, Dec 27, 2022 at 3:38 PM Bruce Schuck <bschuck at asgard-systems.com>
> wrote:
>
>> On 12/27/22 9:08 AM, R Losey wrote:
>>
>> > I have version 1.52 installed on Ubuntu 22.04LTS... it came as a
>> > package.  What do I need to do to install the update? Is there a
>> > script to run for updates? Do I need to build it myself?
>>
>> Dropped gnucash-devel from the Cc.
>>
>> The good folks on the GnuCash team will point you to "gnc-fq-update",
>> which itself is small Perl wrapper script which calls CPAN.
>>
>> https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Online_Quotes#gnc-fq-update
>>
>>
>> https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Online_Quotes#Installing_Finance::Quote_using_CPAN
>>
>> It takes Ubuntu/Canonical some time to update their packages, so they
>> are usually at least a major release or two behind.
>>
>> Updating from F::Q v1.52 to v1.54 should be quick using CPAN. But
>> therein lies the caveat with Perl and CPAN. Occasionally additional
>> modules or updates to existing ones require compilation of C code. While
>> the CPAN mechanism will take care of this, it will require a development
>> environment. At the very least the basic gcc/g++ packages and gmake.
>>
>> - Bruce S.
>>
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