I just figured this out in the last few days. There are a couple places in gnucash that call perl to do things associated with retrieving quotes. If you have installed fink's perl588, then you're probably blocking gnucash's access to the perl it needs to get quotes.
I'll be able to upload a fix tomorrow evening. In the meantime, if you do have perl588 installed, you can try installing finance-quote-pm588 and finance-quotehist-pm588 (I think those will pull in all the other perl modules needed.). I have run gnucash 2.x with various different perl configurations. All you have to do is make sure all the supporting modules needed for quote retrieval are present in fink for the version of perl that gets launched if you do an unspecified "perl ..." command. As I say, I just figured out how to nail this down to guarantee that gnucash 2.x finds the perl it needs. One thing that I haven't tested yet is whether gnucash run from a menu item in an xterm window succeeds with my latest scheme. If you're launching gnucash from a menu item or from a droplet, try launching x11.app, and then typing 'gnucash' in the xterm window. Your version of orbit2 should not matter. As long as you had a functioning gnucash before, nothing in the slightly newer orbit will matter. Dave On Nov 12, 2007, at 12:32 AM, David T. wrote: > I have been running into some troubles with GnuCash 2.2.1 not doing > online > quotes, and so I tried to update-all in fink, hoping it would, well, > update all > my installed packages and let me see whether my troubles went away. > > Suffice to say (since I am sending this message), it didn't work. > The command > crapped out repeatedly, even after issuing selfupdate, fink > reinstall fink and > a few voodoo incantations (okay, they were anglo-saxon in origin). > So I went > through the list of about 240 packages that fink said it had to > update (where > do they all come from?!?), and individually installed a boatload of > them, > getting it down to a mere 79 packages (plus an additional 17). Most > of these > remaining packages seem to rely on orbit2, which I can't get to > update. I have > seen a lot of traffic on the list about orbit2 and Leopard, but I am > using > Tiger. Any ideas/ suggestions? > > MacIntel 10.4.10 > macbook:~ david$ fink --version > Package manager version: 0.27.9 > Distribution version: 0.8.1.rsync i386 > > Cheers, > David > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around > http://mail.yahoo.com > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. > Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. > Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a > browser. > Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ > _______________________________________________ > Fink-beginners mailing list > [email protected] > http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.apple.fink.beginners -- David Reiser [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ Fink-beginners mailing list [email protected] http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.apple.fink.beginners
