[GNC] Finance::Quote in GC 4.11 Flatpak

Tue Sep 27 17:14:53 EDT 2022

RSBrux:

I use a Mac, not a Flatpak on Linux, but one detail of this thread 
caught my eye. You say, "for the one [file named AlphaVantage.pm]  in my 
Flatpak installation". On the Mac, Finance::Quote installs not one, but 
two files named AlphaVantage.pm . When I run the "find" command below, I 
get two results:

/Library/Perl/5.30/Finance/Quote/AlphaVantage.pm
/Library/Perl/5.30/Finance/Quote/CurrencyRates/AlphaVantage.pm

It is the second file, within the directory CurrencyRates/, which must 
be updated. Does Flatpack contain two such files? Did you update the 
correct one?

The first file was 12527 bytes, the second (inside CurrencyRates/) is 
3938 bytes as updated.

Now the situation may be different on Flatpak, in which case this 
comment is of no use to you. My apologies.

Best regards,
     —Jim DeLaHunt

On 2022-09-27 13:02, rsbrux via gnucash-user wrote:
> Unfortunately, this didn’t wotk for me.  After substituting the version of AlphaVantage.pm linked below for the one in my Flatpak installation, “Get Quotes” was completely disabled.  I suspect that I don’t have the correct file, because the new version is much smaller than the original AlphaVantage.pm fron F::Q 1.49.
>
> Sent from my iPad
>
>> On 27 Sep 2022, at 03:28, Murugan Muruganandam <m.muruganandam at hotmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> 
>> Geoff
>>
>> thanks so much, it works perfectly for me in windows, i replaced the AlphaVantage.pm file with the FX_Daily code
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Saludos Cordiales
>>
>>
>>
>> Murugan
>>
>> From: gnucash-user <gnucash-user-bounces+m.muruganandam=hotmail.com at gnucash.org> on behalf of Geoff <cleanoutmyshed at gmail.com>
>> Sent: Monday, September 26, 2022 9:48 PM
>> To: rsbrux <rsbrux at yahoo.com>; gnucash-user at gnucash.org <gnucash-user at gnucash.org>
>> Subject: Re: [GNC] Finance::Quote in GC 4.11 Flatpak
>>   
>> CAVEAT:- I am not familiar with FlatPak.
>>
>> 1. See 3b.
>>
>> 2. I personally have no idea, but discussion on the pull request you
>> cited says YES.
>>
>> 3a.
>> https://raw.githubusercontent.com/shirayu/finance-quote/9aee4b6d06da8a0e689b751d0e926160fb99d71b/lib/Finance/Quote/CurrencyRates/AlphaVantage.pm
>>
>> 3b.  Follow these steps to locate and replace your current
>> AlphaVantage.pm file:-
>>
>> 3b.1  Save the file from 3a (plain text) as AlphaVantage.pm in a
>> temporary location.
>>
>> 3b.2  Find the current copy of AlphaVantage.pm on your machine - run
>> something like this command:
>>     sudo find / -name AlphaVantage.pm -print
>>
>> 3b.3  Rename the current copy of AlphaVantage.pm in that location to
>> something like AlphaVantage.pm.BACKUP
>>
>> 3b.4   Copy the AlphaVantage.pm file from 3b.1 to that location.
>>
>> 4.  If the above makes things worse, simply delete the new file and
>> rename the backup file.
>>
>> Good luck!
>>
>> Geoff
>> =====
>>
>>
>> On 27/09/2022 1:43 am, rsbrux via gnucash-user wrote:
>>> I have installed my free AlphaVantage API key in /etc/environment, but when I try to "Get Quotes", I get the well-known message "Unable to retrieve quotes for these items:, CURRENCY:  ...".  I presume that this is due to the problem reported on the page https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Online_Quotes#Source_Alphavantage.2C_US:
>>>
>>> GnuCash stopped being able to retrieve currency exchange rates using a free AlphaVantage API key from about Aug 15 2022 because AlphaVantage made the method F::Q used to obtain exchange rates unavailable for free API keys.
>>>
>>> F::Q has been modified to work with free API keys and the fix should be available in the next F::Q version (1.53).
>>> <<
>>>
>>> By running "gnc-fq-check" in a console running "flatpak run --command=sh org.gnucash.GnuCash" I found that the F::Q version in my Flatpak installation is 1.49.  Obviously, I would like to update F::Q to version 1.53.   I tried running "gnc-fq-update" from within "flatpak run --command=sh org.gnucash.GnuCash", but it fails from a normal account (presumably due to inadequate priveleges), and "sudo flatpak run --command=sh org.gnucash.GnuCash" doesn't work either, nor does running "flatpak run --command=sh org.gnucash.GnuCash" after having used "su <adminname>" to invoke it with higher privileges.
>>>
>>> 1. How can I update F::Q in my Flatpak installation?
>>>
>>> 2. Will this solve the problem? V1.53 isn't listed in either SourceForge or metacpan.
>>>
>>> 3. I looked at the workaround (https://github.com/finance-quote/finance-quote/pull/230), but it isn't clear to me:
>>>
>>> a. How to obtain the updated AlphaVantage.pm from github pull #230?
>>>
>>> b. How to apply it to the flatpak environment?
>>>
>>>    
>>>
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