Re: Finance::Quote

[email protected] (John SJ Anderson)
Newsgroups perl.beginners
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> On Fri, 3 Jul, 2026, 9:21 pm Jim Gibson via beginners, <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>> Use the command ‘perl -V’ (that is a capital V) to see where your perl installation looks for modules to load. The source file for Finance::Quote (Quote.pm) needs to be in a directory Finance somewhere in that path.
>> 
>> You can install modules without using the cpan utility program.
>> 
>> First, download the module distribution from www.cpan.org <http://www.cpan.org/>. Then use these commands:
>> 
>> perl Makefile.PL
>> make
>> make test
>> make install
>> 
>> (You may need to preface the last command with ’sudo’)
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> > On Jul 3, 2026, at 6:04 AM, Mike <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>> > 
>> > 
>> > If I do:
>> > cpan install Finance::Quote
>> > in a terminal on my Linux Mint I expect the Quote.pm
>> > file to be installed here:
>> > /home/mike/perl5/lib/perl5/Finance/
>> > 
>> > Instead it installs here:
>> > /home/mike/.cpan/build/Finance-Quote-1.70-0/lib/Finance/
>> > 
>> > Well, OK.  So I copy the /home/mike/.cpan/build/Finance-Quote-1.70-0/lib/Finance/
>> > directory to /home/mike/perl5/lib/perl5/, but when I run
>> > the supplied quote_example.pl <http://quote_example.pl/> file it gives a long, failed
>> > output that begins with:
>> > 
>> > $ perl quote_example.pl <http://quote_example.pl/>
>> > 
>> > Can't locate XML/LibXML.pm in @INC (you may need to install the XML::LibXML module) (@INC contains: ../lib /home/mike/perl5/lib/perl5/5.30.0/x86_64-linux /home/mike/perl5/lib/perl5/5.30.0 /home/mike/perl5/lib/perl5/x86_64-linux /home/mike/perl5/lib/perl5 /home/mike/perl5/perlbrew/perls/perl-5.30.0/lib/site_perl/5.30.0/x86_64-linux /home/mike/perl5/perlbrew/perls/perl-5.30.0/lib/site_perl/5.30.0 /home/mike/perl5/perlbrew/perls/perl-5.30.0/lib/5.30.0/x86_64-linux /home/mike/perl5/perlbrew/perls/perl-5.30.0/lib/5.30.0) at /home/mike/perl5/lib/perl5/Finance/Quote/MorningstarJP.pm line 27.
>> > BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /home/mike/perl5/lib/perl5/Finance/Quote/MorningstarJP.pm line 27.
>> > Compilation failed in require at /home/mike/perl5/lib/perl5/Module/Load.pm line 78.
>> > 
>> > Here is my path:
>> > $ echo $PATH | tr : \\n | sort
>> > /bin
>> > /home/mike/.cargo/bin
>> > /home/mike/.local/bin
>> > /home/mike/perl5
>> > /home/mike/perl5/bin
>> > /home/mike/perl5/perlbrew/bin
>> > /home/mike/perl5/perlbrew/perls/perl-5.30.0/bin
>> > /sbin
>> > /snap/bin
>> > /usr/bin
>> > /usr/games
>> > /usr/local/bin
>> > /usr/local/games
>> > /usr/local/sbin
>> > /usr/sbin
>> > $
>> > 
>> > quote_example.pl <http://quote_example.pl/> is located here:
>> > https://www.mflan.com/temp/quote_example.pl
>> > 
>> > I would like to be able to install Finance::Quote and use it.
>> > Can anyone here help?
>> > 
>> > 
>> > Mike
>> > 
>> 
>> 
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