Re: [GNC] Getting security prices - Funnies

2019-03-09 Thread Eric Coates
John Thank you for your patience, I've had a number of problems over the past few days and I've only Just been able to get to dealing with this problem. Short report: I've now got F::Q to successfully update the prices all my securities. Somewhat longer report in case it can help others: O

Re: [GNC] Getting security prices - Funnies

2019-03-06 Thread John Ralls
After installation all of the files are copied to one of the directories in perl's @INC include list. What those directories are depends on the way perl is configured, but if you ran cpan as root then I'd expect them to be in /usr/lib/perl/ or /usr/lib/per5. For non-root installations ~/perl5 or

Re: [GNC] Getting security prices - Funnies

2019-03-06 Thread Eric Coates
John Thanks for the explanations - and the bonus of explaining what the padlock means, the directory belongs (in this case) to root. But, in my ignorance, I don't follow your comment that none of the directories of the form Finance-Quote-1.44-0 are needed after F::Q is installed. A

Re: [GNC] Getting security prices - Funnies

2019-03-05 Thread John Ralls
> On Mar 5, 2019, at 9:36 AM, Eric Coates wrote: > > I am running GnuCash 2.9.16 (with Finance Quote 1.47) on Ubuntu 16.04. > > In the course of some fairly standard (for me) work I have come across a > couple of "funnies" and I'm wondering whether they are deliberate, "features" > (from Mi

[GNC] Getting security prices - Funnies

2019-03-05 Thread Eric Coates
I am running GnuCash 2.9.16 (with Finance Quote 1.47) on Ubuntu 16.04. In the course of some fairly standard (for me) work I have come across a couple of "funnies" and I'm wondering whether they are deliberate, "features" (from Microsoft's vocabulary meaning a bug that won't be fixed), bugs or