[GNC] Problem with Online Quotes/Price Database

[Kalpesh Patel]

There is more than one way to install it, thankfully.

With the procedure I provided, it least keeps screen output intact to denote or capture the error when it fails...

-----Original Message-----
From: David H <hellvee at gmail.com> 
Sent: Friday, June 14, 2024 9:11 PM
To: david amaral <dejamaral at yahoo.com>
Cc: gnucash-user at gnucash.org; Kalpesh Patel <kalpesh.patel at usa.net>; sbarru at gmail.com; chop88 at gmail.com
Subject: Re: [GNC] Problem with Online Quotes/Price Database

I use the simple way on Windows.  Go To the Start Menu and the Gnucash folder under "G" within it - click on "Install Online Price Retrieval for Gnucash", let it do it's thing.  I use this whenever a new Finance Quote module has been installed and it works every time, also installs Strawberry Perl if required.

Cheers David H.

On Sat, 15 Jun 2024 at 04:11, david amaral via gnucash-user <gnucash-user at gnucash.org> wrote:
>
>  dont know why this happened but.shoud be cd Program Files 
> (x86)\gnucash\bin perl gnc-fq-check (should get some info) if not 
> install/reinstall finance quote cpanm Finance::Quote perl 
> gnc-fq-update close all apps and reboot should fix your problem
>
>
>
>     On Friday, June 14, 2024 at 11:05:26 AM MST, david amaral via gnucash-user <gnucash-user at gnucash.org> wrote:
>
>   Had same problem and this resolved it open CMD windowcd Program 
> Files (x86)\gnucash\binperl gnc-fq-check (should get some info)if not 
> install/reinstall finance quotecpanm Finance::Quote perl gnc-fq-update 
> close all apps and reboot should fix your problem
>
>     On Friday, June 14, 2024 at 10:33:05 AM MST, Kalpesh Patel <kalpesh.patel at usa.net> wrote:
>
>  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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> >
>
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