[GNC] gnc-fq-update

[Kalpesh Patel]

Fred – there are two part to this – stand alone each -- and they combined can together work as one, or as two separate things on their own on any system if you are NOT using flat pak version of GNUCash. It looks like you may be confusing things here because of that.

 

There is Perl based Finance::Quote (F::Q for short) libraries – which is responsible for retrieving quotes from various sources -- and there is GNUCash -- which is for bookkeeping. However, GNUCash can call Finance::Quote to retrieve pricing for its needs. The upgrade happens when you update each components and what is packaged with each. gnc-fq-update is part of GNUCash; and NOT part of F::Q. You have to update GNUCash to get updated gnc-fq-update. Updating F::Q – which now stands at 1.65 -- simply updates Perl libraries which may introduce additional sources for Quotes, fixing bugs, etc., but it does not trample on any of the GNUCash packaged components, and vice a versa for F::Q components when upgrading GNUCash. 

 

Hope this helps.

 

From: Fred Tydeman <tydeman.fred at gmail.com> 
Sent: Thursday, May 01, 2025 10:18 AM
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Subject: Re: [GNC] gnc-fq-update

 

That command did update Finance-Quote

but it did not install gnc-fq-update

So, it appears that there are two ways to do the update.

 

On Wed, Apr 30, 2025 at 7:47 PM Kalpesh Patel <kalpesh.patel at usa.net <mailto:kalpesh.patel at usa.net> > wrote:

Sorry, the command in shell is actually just (no "install" in the middle as it will try to install a module named install which not needed):

cpanm Finance::Quote

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Subject: RE: [GNC] gnc-fq-update

Following command should do on Windows or Linux distro's:

cpanm install Finance::Quote

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Subject: [GNC] gnc-fq-update

I want to update Fiance-Quote, but
gnc-fq-update is missing in Fedora Linux 41.

I looked 11.2. Installing Finance::Quote in https://www.gnucash.org/docs/v5/C/gnucash-manual/fq-install.html

but did not see instructions on how to get gnc-fq-update.

I am running GnuCash 5.11