[GNC] Finance::Quote v1.53 RC1 Available for Download

David G. Pickett dgpickett at aol.com
Sat Oct 1 17:29:28 EDT 2022


I have the flatpak install on Ubuntu, and 1.49 was fine, but better is the enemy of good enough.  I downloaded and extracted, but was not sure how to install.  I googled up https://www.gnucash.org/docs/v4/C/gnucash-help/finance-quote-install.html and https://www.gnucash.org/docs/v4/C/gnucash-help/finance-quote-helper.html#gnc-fq-update.

I ran the sudo on the flatpak gnc-fq-update (sudo /var/lib/flatpak/app/org.gnucash.GnuCash/x86_64/stable/98bea86b69a63cc6ed5a1854344d115a683d6cee7ca56b81e7210f2da2706d88/files/bin/gnc-fq-update), but out of paranoia said 'yes', and it is still busy installing CPAN for, I guess, everything perl!  I am not sure what their canary was telling me, but I said 'y' to continue, too!  Compiling and then installing a bunch of stuff now!  40 odd minutes so far!  I am not sure it is wise to interrupt it!  Wow, 48 minutes and it says:
Appending installation info to /usr/local/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/perl/5.34.0/perllocal.pod  BPSCHUCK/Finance-Quote-1.52.tar.gz  /usr/bin/make install  -- OK 

Maybe it is not so slow if you say no.  How does it normally find where I loaded the new modules?  The docs might say what is different for flatpak, as that is the only way to get/run newer Ubuntu LTS gnucash bits.
I am wondering if the Finance Quote update could be a lot more user friendly and automatic, like under the usual 3 or 4 kinds of update: Ubuntu Software, flatpak, snap, ...?
So is my 1.52 as good as 1.53?  Did I need to download anything?

It still runs 1.49, too!
flatpak run --command=gnucash-cli org.gnucash.GnuCash --quotes get /home/dgp/GnuCash/ubuntu-DGPickett.gnucashF: X11 socket /tmp/.X11-unix/X0 does not exist in filesystem, trying to use abstract socket instead.
** (process:229798): WARNING **: 17:27:21.672: Failed to connect to bus: Could not connect: Connection refusedFound Finance::Quote version 1.49.
How to get it to see a newer version?


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