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bug#65111: GnuCash cannot get online quotes
From: |
Altadil |
Subject: |
bug#65111: GnuCash cannot get online quotes |
Date: |
Tue, 08 Aug 2023 09:11:40 +0000 |
------- Original Message -------
On Monday, August 7th, 2023 at 14:38, Maxim Cournoyer
<maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Altadil via Bug reports for GNU Guix bug-guix@gnu.org writes:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > GnuCash 5.3, as packaged in Guix, cannot access quote sources. When
> > adding a new security, it displays "Warning: Finance::Quote not
> > installed properly." and the "Get Online Quotes" checkbox is greyed
> > out.
> >
> > I am on an up-to-date Guix System and the rest of GnuCash seems to be
> > working fine.
> >
> > It seems the package perl-finance-quote was not automatically
> > installed with gnucash, so I installed it. I then tried to follow the
> > steps in the upstream
> > doc:
> > https://www.gnucash.org/docs/v4/C/gnucash-help/finance-quote-install.html
> > But it did not change the result.
> >
> > The flatpak version of GnuCash from flathub.org (also 5.3) appears to
> > be working (on the same Guix System).
>
>
> If other distributions of GnuCash commonly ship with the necessary Perl
> modules necessary for this feature to work, perhaps we should too? It
> could be done by wrapping the GnuCash binary with the Perl search path
> (PERL5LIB, I reckon).
>
> Would you like to give it a try?
>
> --
> Thanks,
> Maxim
Hi,
I have no idea how this wrapping thing works, but I am willing to look at it.
Is there any example of how to do that ?