[ale] Perl question > Gnucash

[Jim Seymour]

Thank you to all for the rapid response.  I will install the module(s) 
this weekend and give it a try.

Jim Seymour

> Jim Seymour wrote:
> 
>>I am trying to set up Gnucash to get stock quotes. I am getting an error
>>that it cannot locate LWP/UserAgent.pm when trying to get stock quotes.
>>  According to the diagnostic message this is the line it fails at:
>>
>>use LWP::UserAgent;
>>
snip....
> First download the LWP package named libwww-perl-5.63.tar.gz from:
> http://cpan.org/modules/by-module/LWP/.  Then as root move this to
> /usr/local/src and run the command;
> 
>>tar -xvzf libwww-perl-5.63.tar.gz
>>
> cd to the newly created directory and run the following commands.
> 
>>perl Makefile.PL
>>make
>>make test
>>make install
>>
> Then fire up Gnucash and try your stock quotes again.
> 
> The above is the genral way to install perl modules.
> 
> Have fun
> 
> -Michael






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