[GNC] Finance Quote installation Mac

[Ken Farley]

There's been a good deal of difficulty, including for me, in getting 
Finance::Quote to run properly on MacOS. Seems like the Perl stuff on 
Macs gets botched up and no matter what you do it won't work. So, I did 
a whole lot of searching, found a good deal of other people's 
experiments and experiences and finally got the thing working. If you're 
looking for a good source of things to try, definitely check out the 
Wiki that has been compiled about this:

wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Online_Quotes

I put my findings in there, under the "Technical Details on macOS" section.

This topic comes up periodically on this mailing list, usually after a 
new release of macOS. I know my last fight with this was after getting a 
new computer.

On 2022-02-12 17:49, First Name Last Name wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I followed the instructions in the manual for finance quote installation for mac.
>
> I downloaded x code.
> I ran gnc fq update
> It ran in terminal for a few minutes.. then said ‘process completed’.
>
> When in gnucash the ‘online quotes ’ option is still greyed out.
>
> When I run ‘gnc fq check’ it says i need to install the perl module finance::quote
>
> When looking over the long string of text from the installation,
>
> It seems that there were in fact some errors.
>
> Eg:
>
> First try:
>
> 88 warnings generated
>
> Error 225
>
> Errors/warnings found in prerequisites
>
>
>
> 2nd attempt:
>
>
> Do not have write permissions…
>
> Can’t create ‘/Library/Perl/5.3/Web’
> ….. permission denied at …(directory) .. line489
>
> …
>
> Error 13
>
> ….
>
> Errors/warnings found in prerequisites
>
> …..
>
>
> And a lot of other info that goes way over my head.
>
>
> Is this normal? Is this what is causing the problem? Is it possible to get this going for a lay person? I simply did the default options during the installation as suggested in the manual.
>
> If anyone can help I’d really appreciate it. Let me know if there is any specific info from the installation terminal text that would help.
>
> Thank you
>
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