[GNC] Finance::Quote failed to initialize

John Ralls jralls at ceridwen.us
Sat Oct 5 13:18:22 EDT 2024 

Flavio,

That page says the you need perl, JSON::Parse, and Finance::Quote, but it doesn’t say anything about how to get them. What did you do?

At this point I think it’s worthwhile to see if you installed Finance::Quote at all. Run
  find / -x -name Quote.pm
It will take a while, it’s going to search all of your SSD. 

If you’d used Homebrew to install perl you’ll find it in /opt/homebrew/bin. If you’ve run the Homebrew installer it will have modified your shell startup to place that first in $PATH so that 
  which perl
 would return /opt/homebrew/bin/perl` instead of /usr/bin/perl.

Regards,
John Ralls


> On Oct 5, 2024, at 01:27, Boniforti Flavio <boniforti.f at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi John.
> I followed the instructions at: https://www.gnucash.org/docs/v5/C/gnucash-manual/finance-quote.html
> 
> I also found this:
> 
> me at FMacBook-Pro ~ % ls -la /Library/Perl 
> total 0
> drwxr-xr-x   4 root  wheel   128 Aug  4 12:31 .
> drwxr-xr-x  69 root  wheel  2208 Aug 18 16:38 ..
> drwxr-xr-x   3 root  wheel    96 Aug  4 12:31 5.30
> drwxr-xr-x   3 root  wheel    96 Aug  4 12:31 5.34
> 
> But both 5.30 and 5.34 directories are almost empty (at least there's no Finance folder in both of them).
> F.
> 
> https://www.instagram.com/boniforti_music
> https://soundcloud.com/boniforti_music
> https://bonny-j.bandcamp.com <https://bonny-j.bandcamp.com/>
> 
> Am Fr., 4. Okt. 2024 um 22:17 Uhr schrieb John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us <mailto:jralls at ceridwen.us>>:
>> Flavio,
>> 
>> The almost empty /Library/Perl/5.34/ means that you didn't install Finance::Quote there. Please link the instructions that you used.
>> 
>> Regards,
>> John Ralls
>> 
>> 
>> > On Oct 4, 2024, at 11:18 AM, Boniforti Flavio <boniforti.f at gmail.com <mailto:boniforti.f at gmail.com>> wrote:
>> > 
>> > Hi John.
>> > This is the output of the "file" command:
>> > /Applications/Gnucash.app/Contents/MacOS/Gnucash: Mach-O 64-bit executable arm64
>> > 
>> > And these the contents of the Perl library path - I think there's something missing:
>> > 
>> > me at MacBook-Pro ~ % ls -la /Library/Perl/5.34 
>> > total 0
>> > drwxr-xr-x  3 root  wheel   96 Aug  4 12:31 .
>> > drwxr-xr-x  4 root  wheel  128 Aug  4 12:31 ..
>> > -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel   33 Aug  4 12:31 AppendToPath
>> > 
>> > What do you suggest next?
>> > Thanks,
>> > F.
>> > 
>> > https://www.instagram.com/boniforti_music
>> > https://soundcloud.com/boniforti_music
>> > https://bonny-j.bandcamp.com <https://bonny-j.bandcamp.com/>
>> > 
>> > 
>> > Am Do., 3. Okt. 2024 um 21:22 Uhr schrieb John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us <mailto:jralls at ceridwen.us>>:
>> > Flavio,
>> > 
>> > I bet HomeBrew didn’t pick up the Apple Silicon build, but to make sure you can run
>> >    file /Applications/Gnucash.app/Contents/MacOS/Gnucash
>> > Which will return something like
>> >   /Applications/Gnucash.app/Contents/MacOS/Gnucash: Mach-O 64-bit executable x86_64
>> > For an Intel build; the end will be arm64e for an Apple Silicon one. If it’s an Intel build the simpler option is to get the Apple Silicon build from https;//www.gnucash.org <http://www.gnucash.org/>, but if you’d rather not you’ll have to reinstall Finance::Quote, see https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Online_Quotes#Installing_Finance::Quote_on_macOS_from_a_Terminal_prompt.
>> > 
>> > That doesn’t explain why perldoc can’t find Finance::Quote though. Does /Library/Perl/5.34/Finance/Quote.pm exist?
>> > 
>> > Regards,
>> > John Ralls
>> > 
>> > 
>> >> On Oct 2, 2024, at 21:45, Boniforti Flavio <boniforti.f at gmail.com <mailto:boniforti.f at gmail.com>> wrote:
>> >> 
>> >> Hi John.
>> >> I installed GnuCash with HomeBrew. I did not manually install Perl - it was already there:
>> >> 
>> >> me at MacBook-Pro ~ % perl -v
>> >> 
>> >> This is perl 5, version 34, subversion 1 (v5.34.1) built for darwin-thread-multi-2level
>> >> (with 2 registered patches, see perl -V for more detail)
>> >> 
>> >> Copyright 1987-2022, Larry Wall
>> >> 
>> >> Perl may be copied only under the terms of either the Artistic License or the
>> >> GNU General Public License, which may be found in the Perl 5 source kit.
>> >> 
>> >> Complete documentation for Perl, including FAQ lists, should be found on
>> >> this system using "man perl" or "perldoc perl".  If you have access to the
>> >> Internet, point your browser at http://www.perl.org/, the Perl Home Page.
>> >> 
>> >> My MBP is an M1.
>> >> 
>> >> Thanks for helping,
>> >> F.
>> >> 
>> >> https://www.instagram.com/boniforti_music
>> >> https://soundcloud.com/boniforti_music
>> >> https://bonny-j.bandcamp.com <https://bonny-j.bandcamp.com/>
>> >> 
>> >> 
>> >> Am Do., 3. Okt. 2024 um 01:13 Uhr schrieb John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us <mailto:jralls at ceridwen.us>>:
>> >> Flavio,
>> >> 
>> >> What did you actually do? Do you by any chance have a perl installed that isn’t from Apple, perhaps HomeBrew or MacPorts? Is your MBP an Intel or Apple Silicon one and did you install the GnuCash that matches the architecture?
>> >> 
>> >> Regards,
>> >> John Ralls
>> >> 
>> >> 
>> >> > On Oct 2, 2024, at 12:03, Boniforti Flavio <boniforti.f at gmail.com <mailto:boniforti.f at gmail.com>> wrote:
>> >> > 
>> >> > Hi all.
>> >> > 
>> >> > On MacOS Sonoma 14.6.1 I've just followed the instructions from the GnuCash
>> >> > documentation to install the Finance::Quote module.
>> >> > After finishing without errors, I tried to use it but it won't initialize -
>> >> > see here:
>> >> > 
>> >> > me at MacBook-Pro ~ %
>> >> > /System/Volumes/Data/Applications/Gnucash.app/Contents/MacOS/gnucash-cli -Q
>> >> > info
>> >> > 
>> >> > Application Path
>> >> > /System/Volumes/Data/Applications/Gnucash.app/Contents/MacOS/gnucash-cli
>> >> > 
>> >> > Failed to initialize Finance::Quote: missing_modules Finance::Quote
>> >> > JSON::Parse
>> >> > 
>> >> > 
>> >> > Even Perl doesn't know about its existence:
>> >> > 
>> >> > me at MacBook-Pro ~ % perldoc Finance::Quote
>> >> > 
>> >> > No documentation found for "Finance::Quote".
>> >> > 
>> >> > Is anybody able to help me understand what's gone wrong and how to fix it?
>> >> > 
>> >> > Thanks,
>> >> > F.
>> >> > 
>> >> > https://www.instagram.com/boniforti_music
>> >> > https://soundcloud.com/boniforti_music
>> >> > https://bonny-j.bandcamp.com <https://bonny-j.bandcamp.com/>
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