[GNC] Update F::Q in flatpak GC?

[rsbrux]

Thanks for the further tips.  I was unable to find gnucash.trace in 
either /tmp or /var/tmp (or their subdirectories.  Before trying to pipe 
the logs to the console as described in 
https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Flatpak#Getting_Console_Output, I tried 
running the quote retrieval from the command line, as you suggested.  
This resulted in the following error message:

 >>

Price retrieval failed: Finance::Quote check returned error Can't locate 
IO/String.pm in @INC (you may
need to install the IO::String module) (@INC contains: 
/app/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.32.0/x86_64-linux /ap
p/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.32.0 /app/lib/perl5/5.32.0/x86_64-linux 
/app/lib/perl5/5.32.0) at /app/lib/perl
5/site_perl/5.32.0/Finance/Quote/IndiaMutual.pm line 33.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at 
/app/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.32.0/Finance/Quote/IndiaMutual.pm line
33.
Compilation failed in require at 
/app/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.32.0/Module/Load.pm line 78.
Can't locate Finance/Quote/IndiaMutual in @INC (@INC contains: 
/app/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.32.0/x86_64-l
inux /app/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.32.0 /app/lib/perl5/5.32.0/x86_64-linux 
/app/lib/perl5/5.32.0) at /app/
lib/perl5/site_perl/5.32.0/Module/Load.pm line 78.
at /app/bin/finance-quote-wrapper line 113.
Attempt to reload Finance/Quote/IndiaMutual.pm aborted.
Compilation failed in require at 
/app/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.32.0/Module/Load.pm line 78.
Can't locate Finance/Quote/IndiaMutual in @INC (@INC contains: 
/app/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.32.0/x86_64-l
inux /app/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.32.0 /app/lib/perl5/5.32.0/x86_64-linux 
/app/lib/perl5/5.32.0) at /app/
lib/perl5/site_perl/5.32.0/Module/Load.pm line 78.
at /app/bin/finance-quote-wrapper line 114.

<<

This suggests to me that the changes in the pm scripts depend on changes 
in the actual program code.

Can I just copy the entire tarball extract into 
/var/lib/flatpak/app/org.gnucash.GnuCash/current/active/, or do I need 
to limit what I copy or keep any residual files in that directory tree?

Thanks for your support!

On 15.08.23 19:19, john wrote:
> Look in the tracefile (https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Tracefile) or run 
> `gnucash-cli -Q info` (see 
> https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Flatpak#Using_Command_Line_Tools for how 
> to run that from a flatpak) to see what the errors are.
>
> Regards,
> John Ralls
>
>
>> On Aug 15, 2023, at 08:26, rsbrux <rsbrux at yahoo.com> wrote:
>>
>> Now that I copied over the Quote directory and the Quote.pm script in 
>> /var/lib/flatpak/app/org.gnucash.GnuCash/current/active/files/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.32.0/Finance/ 
>> with the files from the 1.58 release package, the "Get Quotes" button 
>> in the Price Database tool is disabled. I already gave universal 
>> execute privileges to  all of the newly copied files (and 
>> directory).  What else might be the cause?
>>
>> On 15.08.23 14:51, rsbrux wrote:
>>> Sorry, dumb question.  I found the tarball here: 
>>> https://sourceforge.net/projects/finance-quote/
>>>
>>> On 15.08.23 14:48, rsbrux wrote:
>>>> Thanks for the tip, but I'm not sure I'm getting the right source.
>>>>
>>>> https://github.com/finance-quote/finance-quote offers a zip 
>>>> download of the code from master.  Is this the 1.58 release code or 
>>>> the current development version?  If the latter, where should I be 
>>>> looking for the release?
>>>>
>>>> On 14.08.23 18:58, john wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> On Aug 14, 2023, at 04:33, rsbrux via gnucash-user 
>>>>>> <gnucash-user at gnucash.org> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I am running GC 5.3+ as a flatpak under Ubuntu Studio 22.04 LTS.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The included F::Q version is 1..56, which I have modified with 
>>>>>> the Yahoo as JSON patch already published to this mailing list.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> However, it looks as though the current F::Q release, 1.58, 
>>>>>> includes quite a few fixes for various sources.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The last I heard,  it wasn't possible to update F::Q within a 
>>>>>> flatpak installation of GC.  Is that still the case?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> If so, when can a flatpak update of GC containing F::Q 1.58 be 
>>>>>> expected?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> If not, how can I update F::Q within my flatpak installation?
>>>>> The update will be available when someone (probably I) have time 
>>>>> to update the F::Q module in gnucash-on-flatpak. That update will 
>>>>> be immediately available in nightly builds; it won't be available 
>>>>> on Flathub until the regular release at the end of September.
>>>>>
>>>>> It's not possible to use CPAN, and consequently gnc-fq-update, in 
>>>>> the flatpak, but you can do it manually similarly to the way you 
>>>>> applied the yahoo_json patch: Download and untar the release 
>>>>> tarball or clone the repo then copy Quote.pm and the contents of 
>>>>> Quote/ into the right places in your flatpak.
>>>>>
>>>>> Regards,
>>>>> John Ralls
>