bug#65111: GnuCash cannot get online quotes

[Tomas Volf]

Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com> writes:

> Hello,
>
> Altadil via Bug reports for GNU Guix <bug-guix@gnu.org> writes:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> GnuCash 5.3, as packaged in Guix, cannot access quote sources. When
>> adding a new security, it displays "Warning: Finance::Quote not
>> installed properly." and the "Get Online Quotes" checkbox is greyed
>> out.
>>
>> I am on an up-to-date Guix System and the rest of GnuCash seems to be 
>> working fine.
>>
>> It seems the package perl-finance-quote was not automatically
>> installed with gnucash, so I installed it. I then tried to follow the
>> steps in the upstream
>> doc: 
>> https://www.gnucash.org/docs/v4/C/gnucash-help/finance-quote-install.html
>> But it did not change the result.
>>
>> The flatpak version of GnuCash from flathub.org (also 5.3) appears to
>> be working (on the same Guix System).
>
> If other distributions of GnuCash commonly ship with the necessary Perl
> modules necessary for this feature to work, perhaps we should too?  It
> could be done by wrapping the GnuCash binary with the Perl search path
> (PERL5LIB, I reckon).
>
> Would you like to give it a try?

Should be fixed by 75317, so I will merge the bugs.

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