[GNC] Problem with Online Quotes/Price Database

[Kalpesh Patel]

It is very likely that when you uninstalled Strawberry Perl, it also
uninstalled Finance::Quote library which is needed to download quotes.

At a Windows' CMD (Command line) console, you should be able to installed it.
Instructions are as follows:

1) At the command prompt execute following to bring up CPAN shell:
perl -MCPAN -e shell

2) In CPAN shell type in following command (this might trigger initialization
question for CPAN module since it will be seen as being run for first time.
accepting all defaults setting is fine so answer 'Y' when prompted):
install Finance::Quote

Get your favorite drink and enjoy it while all dependencies are downloaded and
installed. If all goes well then you should see following (or similar) message
at completion of step 2:
Finance::Quote is up to date (1.62).

Once finished, I recommend you reboot and then launch GNUCash. If everything
works as it suppose to, the button will be no longer greyed out.

Hope that helps.


> On Jun 13, 2024, at 1:25 AM, Steve Barru <sbarru at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I am using GnuCash v4.12 on a 64-bit Windows 11 laptop to keep track of
> personal finances. I am retired and my income consists of Social Security
> and distributions from investments in funds and occasionally, stocks. I
> live outside of the US and am tracking dual-currencies with GnuCash. When I
> started running GnuCash in Jan 2023, I set up the Online Price Retrieval
> module for equities and forex quotations. I have been using the Price
> Database tool to fetch quotes on a more or less monthly basis and this has
> worked seamlessly until May 2024 when I got an error message telling me
> there was a problem with the database or something to that effect. Beyond
> periodic Windows updates, no changes to my system that I know of.
>
> Since then I have uninstalled and then reinstalled the Strawberry Perl app
> that runs the online quote service; the version installed is 5.32.1001.
> After the installation, I ran the Price Database tool and the Get Quotes
> button on the right of the screen was grayed out. I got a new Alpha Vantage
> API key hoping that might solve the problem. It did not; the Get Quotes
> button is still grayed out.
>
> Looking for suggestions how to troubleshoot this, hopefully that are not
> exceptionally technical. Thanks for any help with this.
>
> Best,
> Steve
>
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