Hi, folks:
I recently upgraded to GnuCash 5.5-1 on macOS, from 4.14 and a long
succession of GnuCashes before that. I have been successfully retrieving
quotes via AlphaVantage for a long time. With the upgrade to GnuCash
5.5, that stopped working.
When I run the GnuCash 5.5 application, and open the Price Database
window, the "Get Quotes" button is disabled.
When I ask gnucash-cli for quotes info, it says JSON::Parse is not
installed:
% PATH='/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin'
/Applications/Gnucash.app/Contents/MacOS/gnucash-cli --quotes info
Application Path /Applications/Gnucash.app/Contents/MacOS/gnucash-cli
Failed to initialize Finance::Quote: missing_modules JSON::Parse
Similarly, when I run the GnuCash 5.5 application in --debug mode, and
look at the log file, there is a message that JSON::Parse is missing:
/...[59 lines elided]...
/* 11:45:37 INFO <gnc.gui> [scm_run_gnucash] Attempt to load
Finance::Quote returned this error message:
* 11:45:37 INFO <gnc.gui> [scm_run_gnucash] Failed to initialize
Finance::Quote: missing_modules JSON::Parse
/...[134,149 lines elided]...
/
But the gnucash-fq-update utility thinks everything is fine:
% PATH='/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin' sudo
/Applications/Gnucash.app/Contents/Resources/bin/gnc-fq-update
Password:
Starting with /...[elided].../ this dialog will disappear.
Reading '/Users/jdlh/.cpan/Metadata'
Database was generated on Fri, 22 Dec 2023 23:54:07 GMT
Test2 is up to date (1.302198).
Finance::Quote is up to date (1.58).
JSON::Parse is up to date (0.62).
And CPAN seems to think that JSON::Parse is present:
% PATH='/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin' sudo cpan
Password:
Loading internal logger. Log::Log4perl recommended for better logging
Starting with /...[elided].../ this dialog will disappear.
Terminal does not support /...[elided]...
/cpan shell -- CPAN exploration and modules installation (v2.36)
Enter 'h' for help.
cpan[1]> m JSON::Parse
Reading '/Users/jdlh/.cpan/Metadata'
Database was generated on Fri, 22 Dec 2023 23:54:07 GMT
Module id = JSON::Parse
CPAN_USERID BKB (Ben Bullock <b...@cpan.org>)
CPAN_VERSION 0.62
CPAN_FILE B/BK/BKB/JSON-Parse-0.62.tar.gz
UPLOAD_DATE 2022-07-15
MANPAGE JSON::Parse - Parse JSON
INST_FILE /Library/Perl/5.30/darwin-thread-multi-2level/JSON/Parse.pm
INST_VERSION 0.62
cpan[2]> install JSON::Parse
JSON::Parse is up to date (0.62).
Note that I am using MacPorts on this system. That sometimes leads to
confusion, as described in
<https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Online_Quotes#Multiple_Perl_installations_on_macOS>.
Thus I prefix commands with a PATH that excludes MacPorts, in the hopes
that I will be checking only the system Perl locations which the GnuCash
app consults.
For what it's worth, MacPorts has perl 5.34.3 installed, and the perl
5.34 edition of JSON::Parse as well. The system has perl 5.30.3
installed. I do not know if this difference is significant.
I have read through the wiki page Online Quotes. I think I have done
what that page suggests. (Also, that page has now become a bit of a
mess, because it mixes together instructions for several different
online quotes tools from versions 5, 4, and pre-4 of GnuCash.)
Interestingly, when I run gnucash-cli from the GnuCash-provided
application and a path that includes MacPorts, it seems happy with the
Finance::Quote installation from MacPorts:
% /Applications/Gnucash.app/Contents/MacOS/gnucash-cli --quotes info
Application Path /Applications/Gnucash.app/Contents/MacOS/gnucash-cli
Found Finance::Quote version 1.58.
Finance::Quote sources:
aex alphavantage amfiindia asegr asx
/...[elided].../
xetra yahoo_json yahooweb za
Thus I have a workaround: get quotes via gnucash-cli, which perhaps
relies on the MacPorts installation of Finance::Quote rather than the
built-in installation.
% /Applications/Gnucash.app/Contents/MacOS/gnucash-cli --quotes get
/...[elided].../ledger.gnucash
Application Path /Applications/Gnucash.app/Contents/MacOS/gnucash-cli
Found Finance::Quote version 1.58.
%
Any suggestions for how to diagnose and fix the Get Quotes functionality
within the GnuCash application?
Thank you in advance for your help. And many thanks to the GnuCash
developers for all the improvements in the 5.x versions!
—Jim DeLaHunt, Vancouver, Canada
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