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Abstract
If you have more than a couple of commodities, you will tire of having to update their quotes
constantly. GnuCash has the ability to automatically download the most recent quote for your
commodities using the Internet. This is accomplished through the Perl module Finance::Quote,
which must be installed in order to activate this feature.
Prerequisites for an Online Quote update with Finance::Quote are
the
Perllanguage interpreter andthe
Perl-moduleFinance::Quotewith any dependenciesthe
Perl-module JSON::Parse to manage the output ofFinance::Quote.
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If you get stuck while performing the steps described here, you can reach many helpful users on the
channels mentioned under Section 2.1.4, “ | |
You can also leave out this step and manually update your stock quotes.