Bug 78983

Summary:	stock quotes do not work with the default installation
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	David Monniaux <david.monniaux>
Component:	gnucash	Assignee:	Bill Nottingham <notting>
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Version:	8.0	CC:	jeff.morriss, rvokal
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Description David Monniaux 2002-12-04 11:08:24 UTC

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Description of problem:
When asking to retrieve stock quotes (Tools -> Price editor -> Get quotes),
gnucash dies with a SIGPIPE. The reason is that the Finance::Quote Perl module
is not installed (which is done either by running update-finance-quote or
getting it manually from CPAN).

gnucash should NOT get killed by such a problem - it should display a meaningful
error message.


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How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Run gnucash
2.Creation a foreign currency account (say, currency = USD, security = EUR)
3.Tools -> Price editor -> Get quotes


Actual Results:  gnucash dies with SIGPIPE.

Expected Results:  gnucash should have:
- either fetched the currency information from the WWW (possible if
Finance::Quote is installed)
- either complained about Finance::Quote not being installed.

Additional info:

The problem is fixed by running update-finance-quote or installing manually
Finance::Quote from CPAN.

Comment 1 Jeff Morriss 2003-05-11 02:51:52 UTC

In RedHat Linux 9, gnucash no longer crashes when requesting stock quotes--but
it does ask you to run 'update-finance-quote' to get Finance::Quote.  (It seems
to me that this module should be available as an RPM from RedHat--I'm currently
searching for one, but no luck yet...)

Comment 2 Bill Nottingham 2005-01-28 22:21:16 UTC

Closing bugs from older, end-of-life releases. Apologies for any lack of response.

Please attempt to reproduce problems on a current distro, such as Fedora Core 3.