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/<version> or /usr/lib/per5. For non-root installations ~/perl5 or ~/lib/perl5 are common.
Regards, John Ralls > On Mar 6, 2019, at 2:23 AM, Eric Coates <eric.coa...@sky.com> wrote: > > > 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-1.44-0xxxx > are needed after F::Q is installed. > Ameer Sengar and nvsoar have said that the file > AlphaVantage.pm > needs to be slightly modified to overcome the throttling. The only copies of > that file I can find on my system reside in the Finance-Quote directories > (albeit several subdirectories down). I would have thought that deleting the > Finance-Quote directories would negate the effect of changing the > AlphaVantage.pm file. > What am I missing? > On your comment about using yahoo-json instead of AlphaVantage it's worth > noting that the London Stock Exchange (where many of my securities are > listed) quotes prices in pennies but yahoo-json interprets the numbers as > pounds. Using yahoo-json makes one (appear to be) very rich! (However, it > does work correctly to get European stocks - at least on the Frankfurt and > Paris bourses - and I use it for those securities.) > Best wishes > Eric > =============================================== > > On 05/03/2019 19:54, John Ralls wrote: >>> On Mar 5, 2019, at 9:36 AM, Eric Coates <eric.coa...@sky.com> >>> 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 Microsoft's vocabulary meaning a bug that won't be fixed), >>> bugs or me doing something wrong. >>> >>> On the last day of the month I need to revalue my share portfolio. Like >>> others, I have been a victim of Alphvantage's throttling of their service >>> but unlike others I have not (yet) screwed up my courage and updated the >>> the related file to incorporate the delays suggested. >>> >>> I open the Securities Editor, make sure that the Get Quote column is shown >>> (and, for simplicity at this stage, I'll assume no securities are ticked) >>> and then, by double clicking on a security I get to the Security >>> Information window and select Get Online Quotes, click Unknown and select >>> Alphavantage from the drop down. I do this for five securities (no point in >>> doing it for more because of the Alphavantage limitation). In the Price >>> Editor I click Get Quotes and, after a wait, I get the prices for the five >>> securities I selected. >>> >>> Having got those five prices I need to select a second batch of securities. >>> But (*first funny*) I cannot deselect the previously selected securities by >>> clicking on the tick - I have to go back to the Security Information to do >>> that. Is that intended? >>> >>> Having deselected the Get Quote for a security, I have noted that if, in >>> the same session of working with GnuCash, I return to the same security the >>> Get Online Quotes option is not selected but the associated options are >>> still intact. However (*second funny*), if I exit GnuCash (after saving of >>> course) and then restart it and re-enter the Security Editor only those >>> securities that were left ticked as Get Quotes retain the option >>> information, all others are reset to the defaults. >>> >>> These two funnies make getting security prices (using this method) somewhat >>> tedious and may mean that I have to really screw up my courage and make the >>> changes to the file. >>> >>> Anticipating that one day I will screw up enough courage I have been >>> investigating the file Alphavantage.pm. On my system I have five of them; >>> in the directory ~/.cpan/build I have five directories three of the form >>> >>> Finance-Quote-1.44-0 (they are 1.44-0, 1.45-0 and 1.47-0) >>> >>> and two of the form >>> >>> Finance-Quote-1.47-iGUjLI (both are for 1.47 but with different >>> tails, one of them has a closed padlock superimposed on the folder icon) >>> >>> Is this a *third funny*? Do I need all of them? If not, how do I determine >>> which one I do need? >>> >>> The *fourth **(or is it only the third?) **funny* I've noticed is that if I >>> rename a data file the Get Quote column is no longer visible in the >>> Security Editor window. It's easy to get back so this funny is trivial but, >>> out of interest, as the data file has not changed, why does it happen? >>> >> You might try using yahoo-json instead of Alphavantage. It's not throttled. >> >> First funny: Yes, it's intentional. The check box in the Securities dialog >> box is display-only. >> Second funny: That's an artifact of the difference between the in-memory >> state of the Security object and its representation on disk; if "get >> quotes" is off then the quotes element isn't written out. >> Third funny: I haven't seen that before. I've only seen the ones with the >> tail (which I think is randomly generated at build time). I imagine that the >> lock is because the directory belongs to another user. You can run ls -l on >> it in a terminal to see. Once F::Q is installed you don't need any of them. >> Fourth funny: That's because the window state of all windows lives in a file >> named after the data file. When you rename the file outside of GnuCash the >> correspondence is lost. >> >> Regards, >> John Ralls >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
