Hi Richard
If you trawl through the mailing lists you might find some flatpak
related solutions.
For example "gnucash finance quote not installed properly":-
https://lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-user/2021-March/095643.html
Good luck!
Geoff
=====
On 30/06/2022 7:56 pm, Richard Spinney wrote:
Apologies for the spam - just trying to make the necessary info visible.
So I have found a separate perl executable bundled with the Flatpak
installation. The issue now appears to be that I can't run the update
script with it as these executables are designed to be run independently
of Flatpak.
I.e. in this bundled folder is "perl", "gnucash", "gnucash-cli",
"gnc-fq-dump" etc.
But I can't "run" any of them - I get a runtime linking error. I was
able to run the gnc-fq-* scripts as I was invoking my system version of
perl to do so. I open the gnucash GUI itself with the entry to the
flatpak, "org.gnucash.GnuCash".
I.e. there appear to be a few issues with distributing Gnucash as a
flatpak here:
These quite important scripts (gnc-fq-*, gnucash-cli) are:
1. Hidden away in some horrible hidden file structure e.g.
"~/.local/share/flatpak/app/org.gnucash.GnuCash/x86_64/stable/de789f62d67a6ed3ae7fd898b9d1e05cf57cb26fc7f7743262608dfefc81bd0b/files/bin"
2. Even when you do find them, they can't simply be run - the only one
that can be run is "gnucash" (i.e. the GUI), because that is the one
that is hardlinked to in the Flapak run command "flatpak run
org.gnucash.Gnucash"
Thanks,
R.
On Thu, Jun 30, 2022 at 6:43 PM Geoff <cleanoutmys...@gmail.com
<mailto:cleanoutmys...@gmail.com>> wrote:
Hi Richard
Yes, that is confusing. It is possible that this discrepancy in
behaviour may be due to you having two instances of Perl installed -
the
later one is seen by your command line scripts and the earlier (out of
date) one is seen by your GnuCash GUI. I make this suggestion as I
recall seeing other GnuCash problems being reported due to this. I am
mainly a Windows user so I can't really help you to trouble shoot.
Anyway, to upgrade, you can try the "gnc-fq-update" Perl script, which
should get the latest version (1.51) from CPAN:
https://metacpan.org/pod/Finance::Quote
<https://metacpan.org/pod/Finance::Quote>
Finally, I have attached a screenshot of my setup to retrieve prices
for
ASX securities.
Hope this helps.
Regards
Geoff
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On 30/06/2022 6:26 pm, Richard Spinney wrote:
> Hi Geoff,
>
> Thanks for this.
>
> I am little bit confused though, the command line perl scripts I am
> using with the ASX as a source work fine. But moreover, they work
when I
> use *different* sources (e.g. yahoo as JSON), but then they don't
work
> in gnucash itself - I.e. the issue is there when I specifically
avoid
> the ASX as a source. Or have I missed something?
>
> If I do have to update that module do you have any links or
similar you
> could point me to?
>
> Thanks,
>
> R.
>
> On Thu, 30 June 2022, 18:21 Geoff, <cleanoutmys...@gmail.com
<mailto:cleanoutmys...@gmail.com>
> <mailto:cleanoutmys...@gmail.com
<mailto:cleanoutmys...@gmail.com>>> wrote:
>
> Hi Richard
>
> The ASX did a major web upgrade back in 2020 that broke
Version 1.49 of
> Finance::Quote. If you want to use the ASX as your data
source for
> Australian listed securities then you will need to upgrade
that Perl
> module.
>
>
> Regards
>
> Geoff
> =====
>
> On 30/06/2022 5:44 pm, Richard Spinney wrote:
> > Hi All,
> >
> > I'm having some trouble fetching online quotes for Australian
> stocks in
> > Gnucash.
> >
> > My versions are:
> >
> > Gnucash Version: 4.11
> > Build ID: Flathub 4.11
> > Finance::Quote: 1.49
> >
> > running on Linux.
> >
> > Every other security price fetch seems to work fine. For
> instance, this
> > works for US stocks when input into the security editor:
> >
> > Symbol: AAPL
> > Source: alphavantage
> >
> > as do currency quotes.
> >
> > However, I get the following error message:
> >
> > "Unable to retrieve quotes for these items ASX:VGS ..."
> >
> > where ASX is just my "type" categorisation", if I try any ASX
> stock/etf
> > (here using VGS as an example) with any permutation of
> >
> > Symbol: VGS, VGS.AX <http://VGS.AX> <http://VGS.AX
<http://VGS.AX>>, ASX:VGS, ASX.VGS
> > Source: Alphavantage US, Australian Stock Exchange
AU,Yahoo as JSON
> >
> > For reference, I have got the underlying command line scripts
> working and I
> > *can* get Australian quotes using them (in addition to
currency
> and US
> > stock quotes that *do* work in Gnucash). For instance the
following
> > commands all return sensible quotes
> >
> >
> > perl gnc-fq-dump -v asx vgs
> > perl gnc-fq-dump -v yahoo_json VGS.ax
> > perl gnc-fq-dump -v australia vgs
> >
> > I'm unclear if this is because of something I am doing
wrong with the
> > details in the security editor or if there is something
else I'm
> missing.
> >
> > Thanks in advance,
> >
> > R.
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