[GNC] Finance::Quote failed to initialize
Boniforti Flavio
boniforti.f at gmail.com
Mon Oct 7 13:29:11 EDT 2024
Hi Patel.
Thanks for your reply.
I am not really using F::Q outside GNC, I was just testing its behaviour
after having successfully installed it :-)
So, within GNC are the currencies always updated? I see this:
[image: image.png]
And then, if I'd like to add VT, am I right setting it up like this?
[image: image.png]
Thanks,
F.
https://www.instagram.com/boniforti_music
https://soundcloud.com/boniforti_music
https://bonny-j.bandcamp.com
Am Mo., 7. Okt. 2024 um 19:01 Uhr schrieb Kalpesh Patel <
kalpesh.patel at usa.net>:
> It really depends upon which source you will be using to get the pricing
> for your commodities. F::Q is collection of difference sources contributed
> by member which GNC relies to retrieve pricing information. Out of those
> some require API key and some don't. You specify the source to use in the
> security setup page (Tools --> Security Editor; "double click" any
> security; at the bottom of the displayed page) will display how your
> security is setup to retrieve "last" pricing. By default "Get Online
> Quotes" is not checked in that "Edit Security" box, meaning don't get them
> from online.
>
> For currency conversion, F::Q defaults to Alphavantage as the source which
> DOES require an API key. Not sure if F::Q dev have changed it to default to
> some other as Alphavantage has gotten to the point where it is not so
> useful for free as they limit number of requests and throttles them.
>
> For securities, if you use Yahoo for price, if it is available from them,
> then you don't need anything, and you can safely ignore the warning message
> for Alphavantage. For most, other than Alphavanatage you define a specific
> env variable for API key, if it is required, which gets read by F::Q when
> it is run to retrieve prices (Tools --> Price Database). For Alphavantage
> you can either define via an env variable or you can set it in GNC (Edit
> --> Preferences --> Online Quotes). Devs, correct me if this usage has
> changed in anyway.
>
> Since you are using F::Q outside of GNC (calling F::Q on command line is
> outside of GNC 😊), it is better to define an env variable for it. The
> perldoc for F::Q lists what variable name should be for a specific module,
> thus the source that you will select in the security editor window. You can
> defined this way for as many sources you want to use and they all will
> happily live with each other without complaining or stepping on each other.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Boniforti Flavio <boniforti.f at gmail.com>
> Sent: Monday, October 07, 2024 11:03 AM
> To: John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us>
> Cc: GnuCash users group <gnucash-user at gnucash.org>
> Subject: Re: [GNC] Finance::Quote failed to initialize
>
> Hi John.
> Now I was able to install Finance::Quote -->
>
> me at MacBook-Pro ~ % /Applications/Gnucash.app/Contents/MacOS/gnucash-cli
> -Q info
>
> Application Path /Applications/Gnucash.app/Contents/MacOS/gnucash-cli
>
> * 16:58:23 WARN <gnc.price-quotes> [GncFQQuoteSource::set_api_key()] No
> Alpha Vantage API key set, currency quotes and other AlphaVantage based
> quotes won't work.
>
> Found Finance::Quote version 1.63.
>
> Finance::Quote sources:
>
> aex alphavantage amfiindia asegr asx
>
>
> aufunds australia bamosz bats bet bloomberg
>
>
> borsa_italiana bourso bse bseindia bvb
>
>
> canada comdirect consorsbank cse deka dutch
>
>
> dwsfunds europe fetch_live_currencies financeapi
>
> finanzpartner fondsweb fool france ftfunds
>
>
> goldmoney googleweb greece hu hufund hungary
>
>
> hustock iexcloud india indiamutual known_currencies
>
>
> marketwatch morningstarau morningstarch
>
> morningstarjp morningstaruk mstaruk nasdaq
>
>
> nseindia nyse nzx onvista oslobors poland
>
>
> romania seb_funds sinvestor six stockdata stooq
>
>
> tesouro_direto tiaacref tmx tradegate tradeville
>
>
> treasurydirect troweprice troweprice_direct tsp
>
>
> tsx twelvedata ukfunds unionfunds usa xetra
>
>
> yahoo_json yahoojson yahooweb za
>
> Do you still recommend to install "Find.pm"?
> And now, to get the quotes, do I need to somehow "subscribe" to a service
> and get/use an API key? I'm asking because of this:
>
> me at MacBook-Pro ~ % /Applications/Gnucash.app/Contents/MacOS/gnucash-cli
> -Q dump currency USD CHF EUR
>
> Application Path /Applications/Gnucash.app/Contents/MacOS/gnucash-cli
>
> * 16:58:56 WARN <gnc.price-quotes> [GncFQQuoteSource::set_api_key()] No
> Alpha Vantage API key set, currency quotes and other AlphaVantage based
> quotes won't work.
>
> CHF Finance::Quote returned no data and set no error.
>
> EUR Finance::Quote returned no data and set no error.
>
> Thanks,
> F.
>
> https://www.instagram.com/boniforti_music
> https://soundcloud.com/boniforti_music
> https://bonny-j.bandcamp.com
>
>
> Am Mo., 7. Okt. 2024 um 16:36 Uhr schrieb John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us>:
>
> > Yay. Proceed to install Finance::Quote and JSON::Parse.You can use
> > cpan directly or gnc-fq-update, which is just a shell that runs cpan,
> > as you prefer.
> >
> > One more thing to check: Does /System/Library/Perl/5.34/Pod/Find.pm
> exist?
> > I expect it doesn’t, as it doesn’t on either of my Sequoia Macs. That
> > will cause a single test in Finance::Quote to fail. You can use cpan
> > -f Finance::Quote to force it to install anyway. Do that after
> > everything else is installed, you don’t want to force all of the
> dependencies.
> >
> > Regards,
> > John Ralls
> >
> > On Oct 7, 2024, at 00:29, Boniforti Flavio <boniforti.f at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > Hello John.
> >
> > Yes, the file exists:
> >
> > me at MacBook-Pro ~ % ls -la /Library/Perl/5.34/Test total 336
> > drwxr-xr-x 10 root wheel 320 Oct 6 20:43 .
> > drwxr-xr-x 8 root wheel 256 Oct 6 20:44 ..
> > drwxr-xr-x 8 root wheel 256 Oct 6 20:43 Builder
> > -r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 64973 Sep 14 19:32 Builder.pm
> > -r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 54359 Sep 14 19:32 More.pm
> > -r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 6479 Sep 14 19:32 Simple.pm
> > drwxr-xr-x 5 root wheel 160 Oct 6 20:43 Tester
> > -r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 18323 Sep 14 19:32 Tester.pm
> > -r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 19346 Sep 14 19:32 Tutorial.pod
> > drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 96 Oct 6 20:43 use
> >
> > F.
> > https://www.instagram.com/boniforti_music
> > https://soundcloud.com/boniforti_music
> > https://bonny-j.bandcamp.com
> >
> >
> > Am Mo., 7. Okt. 2024 um 00:07 Uhr schrieb John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us
> >:
> >
> >> Flavio,
> >>
> >> OK, good. Does /Library/Perl/5.34/Test/Simple.pm exist?
> >>
> >> Regards,
> >> John Ralls
> >>
> >>
> >> On Oct 6, 2024, at 11:45, Boniforti Flavio <boniforti.f at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi John.
> >>
> >> The output of "sudo cpan Test::Simple" is very long, the last part
> being:
> >>
> >> Appending installation info to
> >> /Library/Perl/Updates/5.34.1/darwin-thread-multi-2level/perllocal.pod
> >> EXODIST/Test-Simple-1.302204.tar.gz
> >> /usr/bin/make install -- OK
> >>
> >> Do you need more output?
> >> F.
> >>
> >> https://www.instagram.com/boniforti_music
> >> https://soundcloud.com/boniforti_music
> >> https://bonny-j.bandcamp.com
> >>
> >>
> >> Am So., 6. Okt. 2024 um 18:37 Uhr schrieb John Ralls
> >> <jralls at ceridwen.us
> >> >:
> >>
> >>> Flavio,
> >>>
> >>> No, you don’t need to install perl from Homebrew. You’d also have to
> >>> edit GnuCash’s environment file to make it work and there’s no
> >>> benefit. We were chasing the Homebrew perl possibility trying to
> >>> figure out if Finance::Quote’s dependencies had gotten installed.
> >>>
> >>> Your list shows that everything got at least downloaded, so at least
> >>> that much worked. IIRC Test::Simple has no dependencies,, so try
> >>> sudo cpan Test::Simple
> >>> If you followed Bruce’s instruction to chown ~/.cpan leave off sudo.
> >>>
> >>> What’s the output?
> >>>
> >>> Regards,
> >>> John Ralls
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> On Oct 6, 2024, at 03:39, Boniforti Flavio <boniforti.f at gmail.com>
> >>> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Hi John.
> >>>
> >>> Yes, indeed I used gnc-fq-update.
> >>>
> >>> Do you suggest that I get Perl from Homebrew? If so, do I need to
> >>> uninstall the existing Perl installation (which apparently came with
> MacOS)?
> >>>
> >>> Here's the output of the ls command:
> >>>
> >>> bonny at Flavios-MacBook-Pro ~ % ls ~/.cpan/build
> >>> Archive-Any-Lite-0.11-0 HTTP-Daemon-6.16-0 Sereal-Decoder-5.004-0
> >>> Archive-Any-Lite-0.11-0.yml HTTP-Daemon-6.16-0.yml
> >>> Sereal-Decoder-5.004-0.yml
> >>> Array-Diff-0.09-0 JSON-Parse-0.62-0 Sereal-Encoder-5.004-0
> >>> Array-Diff-0.09-0.yml JSON-Parse-0.62-0.yml
> >>> Sereal-Encoder-5.004-0.yml
> >>> B-Keywords-1.27-0 Lingua-EN-Inflect-1.905-0
> >>> Software-License-0.104006-0 B-Keywords-1.27-0.yml
> >>> Lingua-EN-Inflect-1.905-0.yml Software-License-0.104006-0.yml
> >>> Config-Tiny-2.30-0 List-SomeUtils-0.59-0
> >>> Spreadsheet-ParseExcel-0.66-0 Config-Tiny-2.30-0.yml
> >>> List-SomeUtils-0.59-0.yml Spreadsheet-ParseExcel-0.66-0.yml
> >>> Crypt-RC4-2.02-0 List-SomeUtils-XS-0.58-0 Spreadsheet-XLSX-0.18-0
> >>> Crypt-RC4-2.02-0.yml List-SomeUtils-XS-0.58-0.yml
> >>> Spreadsheet-XLSX-0.18-0.yml
> >>> Data-Binary-0.01-0 MCE-1.900-0 String-Format-1.18-0
> >>> Data-Binary-0.01-0.yml MCE-1.900-0.yml String-Format-1.18-0.yml
> >>> Data-Section-0.200008-0 Mock-Config-0.03-0 String-Util-1.35-0
> >>> Data-Section-0.200008-0.yml Mock-Config-0.03-0.yml
> >>> String-Util-1.35-0.yml
> >>> Date-Manip-6.95-0 Module-CPANTS-Analyse-1.02-0
> >>> Test-FailWarnings-0.008-0 Date-Manip-6.95-0.yml
> >>> Module-CPANTS-Analyse-1.02-0.yml Test-FailWarnings-0.008-0.yml
> >>> Date-Range-1.41-0 Module-CPANfile-1.1004-0 Test-File-1.993-0
> >>> Date-Range-1.41-0.yml Module-CPANfile-1.1004-0.yml
> >>> Test-File-1.993-0.yml
> >>> Date-Simple-3.03-0 Mozilla-CA-20240924-0 Test-Inter-1.11-0
> >>> Date-Simple-3.03-0.yml Mozilla-CA-20240924-0.yml
> >>> Test-Inter-1.11-0.yml
> >>> DateTime-Format-Builder-0.83-0 Mozilla-PublicSuffix-v1.0.7-0
> >>> Test-Kwalitee-1.28-0
> >>> DateTime-Format-Builder-0.83-0.yml Mozilla-PublicSuffix-v1.0.7-0.yml
> >>> Test-Kwalitee-1.28-0.yml
> >>> DateTime-Format-ISO8601-0.16-0 OLE-Storage_Lite-0.22-0
> >>> Test-LeakTrace-0.17-0
> >>> DateTime-Format-ISO8601-0.16-0.yml OLE-Storage_Lite-0.22-0.yml
> >>> Test-LeakTrace-0.17-0.yml
> >>> DateTime-Format-Strptime-1.79-0 PPI-1.279-0 Test-LongString-0.17-0
> >>> DateTime-Format-Strptime-1.79-0.yml PPI-1.279-0.yml
> >>> Test-LongString-0.17-0.yml
> >>> DateTime-Locale-1.43-0 PPIx-QuoteLike-0.023-0 Test-More-UTF8-0.05-0
> >>> DateTime-Locale-1.43-0.yml PPIx-QuoteLike-0.023-0.yml
> >>> Test-More-UTF8-0.05-0.yml
> >>> Devel-CheckLib-1.16-0 PPIx-Regexp-0.088-0 Test-NoWarnings-1.06-0
> >>> Devel-CheckLib-1.16-0.yml PPIx-Regexp-0.088-0.yml
> >>> Test-NoWarnings-1.06-0.yml
> >>> Devel-Symdump-2.18-0 PPIx-Utils-0.003-0 Test-Perl-Critic-1.04-0
> >>> Devel-Symdump-2.18-0.yml PPIx-Utils-0.003-0.yml
> >>> Test-Perl-Critic-1.04-0.yml
> >>> Digest-Perl-MD5-1.9-0 Parse-Distname-0.05-0 Test-Pod-Coverage-1.10-0
> >>> Digest-Perl-MD5-1.9-0.yml Parse-Distname-0.05-0.yml
> >>> Test-Pod-Coverage-1.10-0.yml
> >>> ExtUtils-MakeMaker-CPANfile-0.09-0 Perl-Critic-1.152-0
> >>> Test-Simple-1.302204-0
> >>> ExtUtils-MakeMaker-CPANfile-0.09-0.yml Perl-Critic-1.152-0.yml
> >>> Test-Simple-1.302204-0.yml
> >>> File-Find-Object-0.3.8-0 Perl-PrereqScanner-NotQuiteLite-0.9917-0
> >>> Test-UseAllModules-0.17-0
> >>> File-Find-Object-0.3.8-0.yml
> >>> Perl-PrereqScanner-NotQuiteLite-0.9917-0.yml
> >>> Test-UseAllModules-0.17-0.yml
> >>> File-TreeCreate-0.0.1-0 Perl-Tidy-20240903-0 Text-Template-1.61-0
> >>> File-TreeCreate-0.0.1-0.yml Perl-Tidy-20240903-0.yml
> >>> Text-Template-1.61-0.yml
> >>> Finance-Quote-1.63-0 Pod-Coverage-0.23-0 Web-Scraper-0.38-0
> >>> Finance-Quote-1.63-0.yml Pod-Coverage-0.23-0.yml
> >>> Web-Scraper-0.38-0.yml
> >>> HTML-Selector-XPath-0.28-0 Pod-Parser-1.67-0 XML-XPathEngine-0.14-0
> >>> HTML-Selector-XPath-0.28-0.yml Pod-Parser-1.67-0.yml
> >>> XML-XPathEngine-0.14-0.yml
> >>> HTML-TableExtract-2.15-0 Pod-Spell-1.26-0 libwww-perl-6.77-0
> >>> HTML-TableExtract-2.15-0.yml Pod-Spell-1.26-0.yml
> >>> libwww-perl-6.77-0.yml
> >>> HTML-TreeBuilder-XPath-0.14-0 Readonly-2.05-0 local-lib-2.000029-0
> >>> HTML-TreeBuilder-XPath-0.14-0.yml Readonly-2.05-0.yml
> >>> local-lib-2.000029-0.yml
> >>> HTTP-CookieJar-0.014-0 Regexp-Trie-0.02-0 HTTP-CookieJar-0.014-0.yml
> >>> Regexp-Trie-0.02-0.yml
> >>>
> >>> Thanks,
> >>> F.
> >>>
> >>> https://www.instagram.com/boniforti_music
> >>> https://soundcloud.com/boniforti_music
> >>> https://bonny-j.bandcamp.com
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Am So., 6. Okt. 2024 um 00:55 Uhr schrieb John Ralls
> >>> <jralls at ceridwen.us
> >>> >:
> >>>
> >>>> Flavio,
> >>>>
> >>>> Ah, you followed the instructions on
> >>>> https://www.gnucash.org/docs/v5/C/gnucash-manual/fq-install.html,
> >>>> so you used gnc-fq-update.
> >>>>
> >>>> Perl does come with macOS, but it’s not the latest release and some
> >>>> people use Homebrew to get it.
> >>>>
> >>>> The Quote.pms you’ve got aren’t Finance::Quote, so the attempt to
> >>>> install it with gnc-fq-update failed. You ran sudo gnc-fq-update
> >>>> and that created a ~/.cpan owned by root, which is why attempting
> >>>> to run cpan Finance::Quote bailed with the permission error.
> >>>>
> >>>> What;s does
> >>>> ls ~/.cpan/build
> >>>> report?
> >>>>
> >>>> Regards,
> >>>> John Ralls
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> On Oct 5, 2024, at 14:32, Boniforti Flavio <boniforti.f at gmail.com>
> >>>> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> Hi John.
> >>>> In fact I followed the instructions on that page, but nothing tells
> >>>> me how to install JSON::Parse.
> >>>> I verified that I had Perl installed and then I proceeded to
> >>>> install Finance::Quote as explained there in the Mac paragraph.
> >>>>
> >>>> I ran the find command you suggested, except for the fact that I
> >>>> had to remove "-x" as it wouldn't work with MacOS Sonoma. Anyway,
> >>>> these are the places where Quote.pm has been found:
> >>>>
> >>>> /System/Library/Perl/Extras/5.30/Sub/Quote.pm
> >>>> /System/Library/Perl/Extras/5.30/PPI/Token/Quote.pm
> >>>> /System/Library/Perl/Extras/5.34/Sub/Quote.pm
> >>>> /System/Library/Perl/Extras/5.34/PPI/Token/Quote.pm
> >>>>
> >>>> The output of "which perl" reads "/usr/bin/perl", thus I think that
> >>>> I never installed Perl from Homebrew (I think Perl comes with the OS
> already).
> >>>>
> >>>> F.
> >>>>
> >>>> https://www.instagram.com/boniforti_music
> >>>> https://soundcloud.com/boniforti_music
> >>>> https://bonny-j.bandcamp.com
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> Am Sa., 5. Okt. 2024 um 19:18 Uhr schrieb John Ralls <
> >>>> jralls at ceridwen.us>:
> >>>>
> >>>>> 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.htm
> >>>>> l
> >>>>>
> >>>>> 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
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Am Fr., 4. Okt. 2024 um 22:17 Uhr schrieb John Ralls <
> >>>>> 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> 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
> >>>>>> >
> >>>>>> >
> >>>>>> > Am Do., 3. Okt. 2024 um 21:22 Uhr schrieb John Ralls <
> >>>>>> 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, but if you’d
> >>>>>> rather not you’ll have to reinstall Finance::Quote, see
> >>>>>> https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Online_Quotes#Installing_Finance::Q
> >>>>>> uote_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>
> >>>>>> 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
> >>>>>> >>
> >>>>>> >>
> >>>>>> >> Am Do., 3. Okt. 2024 um 01:13 Uhr schrieb John Ralls <
> >>>>>> 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> 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/gnuc
> >>>>>> ash-cli -Q
> >>>>>> >> > info
> >>>>>> >> >
> >>>>>> >> > Application Path
> >>>>>> >> >
> >>>>>> /System/Volumes/Data/Applications/Gnucash.app/Contents/MacOS/gnuc
> >>>>>> ash-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
> >>>>>> >> > _______________________________________________
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> >>>>>
> >>
> >
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