Hi Derek,
Thanks for replying (again)... recall that we did some troubleshooting
before.. same issue.
After giving up on the install-uninstall macro type fix, I decided to
dig into Finance::Quote to see what I could find. There is a test perl
script that is short.. I tried it, named it showstocks:
---------
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use Finance::Quote;
@ARGV >= 2 or die "Usage: $0 exchange symbol symbol symbol ...\n";
my $exchange = shift; # Where do we fetch our stocks from.
my @symbols = @ARGV; # Which stocks are we interested in.
my $quoter = Finance::Quote->new; # Create the F::Q object.
$quoter->timeout(30); # Cancel fetch operation if it takes
# longer than 30 seconds.
# Grab our information and place it into %info.
my %info = $quoter->fetch($exchange,@symbols);
foreach my $stock (@symbols) {
unless ($info{$stock,"success"}) {
warn "Lookup of $stock failed - ".$info{$stock,"errormsg"}.
"\n";
next;
}
print "$stock:\t\t",
"Volume: ",$info{$stock,"volume"},"\t",
"Price: " ,$info{$stock,"price"},"\n";
}
--------
Execution yields the following:
$0> ./showstocks usa IBM
Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at
./showstocks line 20.
Lookup of IBM failed -
--------
Not much debugging data.. line 20 refers to
warn "Lookup of $stock failed - ".$info{$stock,"errormsg"}
and I found that $info{$stock,"errormsg"} is not initialized.. which
means (I think) that there is no communication, implying I don't have
the right modules to establish a comm link or that the server is
ignoring the requests.
I found out that
Finance::Quote depends upon a number of other perl modules to
function correctly. These modules include:
LWP::UserAgent
HTTP::Request::Common
HTML::TableExtract
Not a perl expert.. How can I determine which modules are installed on
my system?
Thanks
Richard
Derek Atkins wrote:
> What happens when you try gnc-fq-dump ?
> Maybe your quote source changed their website?
>
> -derek
>
> Richard Geddes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>
>> I was using GNUCash 2.0.5 on Ubuntu 7.04 for the last several months. Set
>> up some stock investments and downloaded stock prices with Tools -> Price
>> Editor -> Get Quotes. This worked ok until about 3 weeks ago. Now I get a
>> message "There was an unknown error while retrieving the price quotes."
>>
>> I did install a firewall management program called "Firestarter" between the
>> time gnucash was working and when it stopped working... I've since
>> uninstalled Firestarter. I tried getting stock quotes after stopping my
>> firewall using "/etc/init.d/iptables stop". No difference.
>>
>> I also upgraded to gnucash 2.2.1. No dice.
>>
>> I uninstalled gnucash altogether and reinstalled it, but still getting the
>> same message.
>>
>> I even thought of uninstalling perl as the module gnucash uses to get the
>> quotes is in perl... but, it seems that many apps on my system depend on
>> perl... on my ubuntu system, if I try to uninstall perl, it also includes
>> (to uninstall) pretty much all the apps I've installed.. does that sound
>> correct...?
>>
>> Anyway, my beef isn't really with perl, although it seems that if there was
>> something goes wrong with perl, alot of things depending on it would also go
>> down.... I just want to get my stock quotes so I can see my current asset
>> values to make decisions without pulling out the calculator.
>>
>> Can someone help me troubleshoot this problem? Thanks.
>>
>> Richard
>>
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