Re: [GNC] Trouble installing Strawberry perl

2021-10-31 Thread David Carlson
After the manual installation following Geoff's suggestions I finally got to the point where GnuCash appeared to run FQ 1.51 and download today's prices ?? Then I noticed that this is still Sunday, which might explain why the latest saved prices are still from Friday. I guess I can move on to my

Re: [GNC] Trouble installing Strawberry perl

2021-10-31 Thread Geoff
Hi David Carlson The "getperl.vbs" script is a GnuCash file, not Strawberry: https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash-on-windows/blob/master/extra_dist/getperl.vbs I am running GnuCash v4.8 on Windows 10 and it is located here: C:\Program Files (x86)\gnucash\bin\ However, I recommend that you: (1) I

Re: [GNC] Trouble installing Strawberry perl

2021-10-31 Thread David H
Also remove C:\Strawberry folder after uninstall if anything left around? Cheers David H. On Mon, 1 Nov 2021 at 05:53, David H wrote: > Nope, just rebooted into Win 10 Pro to have a look as I've got SB perl > installed there and I don't have that file either. May be temporary during > install

Re: [GNC] Trouble installing Strawberry perl

2021-10-31 Thread David H
Nope, just rebooted into Win 10 Pro to have a look as I've got SB perl installed there and I don't have that file either. May be temporary during installation,suggest you check under Control Panel\All Control Panel Items\Programs and Features and see if it thinks it's partially installed? If so, r

Re: [GNC] Trouble installing Strawberry perl

2021-10-31 Thread David Carlson
Thank you David. I tried the Install online price retrieval for GnuCash script again and it still gives the error about the missing .vbs file. Do you know how that file is supposed to be created? On Sun, Oct 31, 2021, 2:31 PM David H wrote: > David, > > Seems like the StrawberryPerl web page i

Re: [GNC] Trouble installing Strawberry perl

2021-10-31 Thread David H
David, Seems like the StrawberryPerl web page is back up, suggest you give it another shot. Cheers David H. On Mon, 1 Nov 2021 at 03:33, David Carlson wrote: > I am trying to install Perl with the script in the GnuCash program folder > in Windows 10. I accidentally forgot to use administrat

[GNC] Trouble installing Strawberry perl

2021-10-31 Thread David Carlson
I am trying to install Perl with the script in the GnuCash program folder in Windows 10. I accidentally forgot to use administrator rights the first time, repeated with rights, but it fails with error Input error: Could not find script file "C:\Windows\system32\getperl.vbs". I also found that t