Thanks; I was hoping it had its own update script. Well, it took a couple of tries... as a long-time C programmer, I have gcc installed.
The first time, I ran the update, and it spit out pages and pages of text, but ultimately failed. Looking back, I could see that it had a problem with not finding 'make', which (to my surprise, wasn't installed). I installed it, and tried again; it spit out even more output, but seemed to work, but I would certainly not call it "quick". I'd like to get my hands on the update source, and see if I can add code to verify that what it needs is present. How much simpler this would have been if it had said something like: "ERROR: make is not installed or not in the command path. Please correct and try again" same thing for anything else it needs... from your script, gcc is needed (?). I assume that the script itself won't run without perl installed. The above are Linux-centric, but at least the checks could be pretty simply added to the Linux area... I'm comfortable with doing things like that in scripting for Linux, but I don't have as much experience with Windows or MacOS scripts. On Tue, Dec 27, 2022 at 3:36 PM Bruce Schuck <bsch...@asgard-systems.com> wrote: > On 12/27/22 9:08 AM, R Losey wrote: > > > I have version 1.52 installed on Ubuntu 22.04LTS... it came as a > > package. What do I need to do to install the update? Is there a > > script to run for updates? Do I need to build it myself? > > Dropped gnucash-devel from the Cc. > > The good folks on the GnuCash team will point you to "gnc-fq-update", > which itself is small Perl wrapper script which calls CPAN. > > https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Online_Quotes#gnc-fq-update > > > https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Online_Quotes#Installing_Finance::Quote_using_CPAN > > It takes Ubuntu/Canonical some time to update their packages, so they > are usually at least a major release or two behind. > > Updating from F::Q v1.52 to v1.54 should be quick using CPAN. But > therein lies the caveat with Perl and CPAN. Occasionally additional > modules or updates to existing ones require compilation of C code. While > the CPAN mechanism will take care of this, it will require a development > environment. At the very least the basic gcc/g++ packages and gmake. > > - Bruce S. > > -- _________________________________ 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.