David, thank you. I did this on my iMac; it ran a LONG time with LOTS of output, and installed the development tools, but finally finished. Even though I'm a software engineer, it was kind of scary.
But the "Get Quotes" is still greyed out, even though I ran the gnc-fq-update... When I attempt the gnucash-cli command, it fails, stating that Finance::Quote is missingcthe JSON::Parse module On Mon, Mar 27, 2023 at 3:49 PM David H <hell...@gmail.com> wrote: > Michael, > > Is your "Get Quotes" button in Gnucash also greyed out? I had to run > gnc-fq-update in /Applications/Gnucash.app/Contents/Resources/bin in the > terminal on macOS and let it update and then start Gnucash before the > button became active. Same in windows 11 pro - open a command prompt as > Administrator and use the command perl "C:\Program Files > (x86)\gnucash\bin\gnc-fq-update" - you need the double quotes around the > path because of the space in the path. After I did this it all seemed ok. > > Hope this helps, > > Cheers David H. > > > > On Tue, 28 Mar 2023 at 06:24, Fross, Michael <mich...@fross.org> wrote: > > > Hello everyone, > > > > I'm looking for a few pointers on how to troubleshoot an issue I'm having > > with v5 downloading quotes. I had no issues with v4.13. When I select > > "Tools|Price Database|GetQuotes" a shell opens and closes quickly and > > nothing is updated. > > > > I don't seem to have any issues with gnucash-cli. Here are the results: > > --- > > C:\Program Files (x86)\gnucash\bin>gnucash-cli.exe --verbose -Q dump > > yahoo_json acn > > acn: > > isodate => 2023-03-27 > > low => 270.64 > > type => EQUITY > > name => acn (Accenture plc) > > pe => 25.180145 > > exchange => Sourced from Yahoo Finance (as JSON) > > eps => 10.88 > > currency => USD > > method => yahoo_json > > success => 1 > > volume => 2805531 > > close => 272 > > date => 03/27/2023 > > year_range => 242.8 - 345.3 > > last => 273.96 > > open => 270.73 > > div_yield => 1.5919117 > > symbol => acn > > high => 274.36 > > --- > > > > Running gnucash with the "--log gnc.scm=debug" shows the following > error: > > > > * 15:11:29 ERROR <gnc.gui> [gnc_prices_dialog_get_quotes_clicked()] Price > > retrieval failed: Failed to parse result returned by Finance::Quote. > > Error message: > > <unspecified file>(1): expected value > > > > > > To me, it's odd that gnucash-cli.exe seems to work where the gnucash app > > itself does not. > > > > I have Finance::Quote: 1.54 installed and it shows this in Help | About > > > > Lastly, if I check the security editor, it seems like every quote > provider > > is greyed out. This woudl suggest to me that gnucash doesn't think there > > is a valid Finance::Quote configured. > > > > I'd appreciate any pointers on how to dig deeper and determine what broke > > for me between 4.13 and 5.0. Is anyone else having issues? > > > > I'm enjoying v5 quite a bit - congrats on the release. > > > > Michael > > _______________________________________________ > > gnucash-user mailing list > > gnucash-user@gnucash.org > > To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: > > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user > > ----- > > Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. > > You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. > > > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-user mailing list > gnucash-user@gnucash.org > To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user > ----- > Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. > You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. > -- _________________________________ Richard Losey rlo...@gmail.com Micah 6:8 _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
