gnucash is capable of online stock quote retrieval but needs some key perl modules to do it: see: /usr/share/gnucash/finance-quote-check my @modules = qw(Date::Manip HTML::Parser Finance::Quote LWP); I believe the ebuilds are: DateManip HTML-Parser Finance-Quote libwww-perl and HTML-TableExtract is needed also I can confirm that installing these modules fixes the problem and enables quote downloading again! They should probably be in the gnucash ebuild DEPENDS, though.
this is an old discussion .. i think we decided once not to add the whole perl rimram for quotes not everybody uses. But it might be re-evaluated .. see bug http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7186 by the looks of it, it got adapted from gnucash side, but this was in the 1.6 series i think.
any word on this.. im no gnucash guru by any means. I'd say we leave out the deps and just add a postinst message.
Why is this not just a USE flag to enable online quote retrieval? That would cover both sides of the issue... those of us who want it to just work out of the box (as one would reasonably expect), and those who don't care about online quotes.
Just got bitten by this one after installing Gnucash on a new system. I'm emerging Finance::Quote now, but perhaps one possible solution is to replace Gnucash's update-finance-quote script with a Gentoo-specific equivalent. After all, the core of that script is these four lines: CPAN::Shell->install('LWP'); CPAN::Shell->install('Date::Manip'); CPAN::Shell->install('HTML::Parser'); CPAN::Shell->install('Finance::Quote'); which can be taken care of by "emerge Finance-Quote DateManip", at least for gnucash-1.8.8 on my ppc system. :)
*** Bug 44786 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
I think the idea of adding a local use flag is okay, but the problem is that unless a user looks at the ebuild, he will not know how to enable quote look up. Thus, it is probably much wiser to add a postinst description. foser?
I've added the local USE flag "quotes" to gnucash and a blurb in einfo about it
