Problems updating mutual fund prices using Yahoo.com

[Jane Hadley]

The last time I successfully updated my mutual fund prices was maybe two
weeks ago. I do vaguely recall the discussion on this mailing list of
problems with the Yahoo service, but I personally was not having a problem
at the time so I didn't pay close attention. I'll go back and look for
those discussions. Has any substitute been found?

I may just update to Ubuntu 18.04 and maybe the 5.02 will show up in the
repository when I do that.

Thanks for the response.

Jane


On Mon, Dec 31, 2018 at 2:38 PM Jack <ostroffjh at users.sourceforge.net>
wrote:

> On 2018.12.31 16:34, Jane Hadley wrote:
> > For the last several days, I have been unable to update mutual fund
> > prices
> > in KMyMoney.
> >
> > I am using KMyMoney Version 4.6.6 on my Ubuntu 16.04 desktop machine.
> >
> > When I go Tools-->Prices -->Update Stock and Currency Prices and then
> > click
> > on "Update All," I get the following error message:
> >
> > Fetching URL
> >
> https://query1.finance.yahoo.com/v7/finance/quote?fields=regularMarketPrice&symbols=ACRNX
> .
> > ..
> > Timeout on server query1.finance.yahoo.com: Socket operation timed out
> > Unable to update price for ACRNX (empty quote data)
> >
> >
> > Is anybody else having the same problem?
> >
> > Suggestions welcome.
> >
> > PS - I would like to update to KMyMoney 5.02, but when I use Synaptic
> > to do
> > so, the latest version it offers is the version I have installed:
> > 4.6.6. I
> > also wouldn't mind some guidance on how to find and install a safe
> > version
> > of 5.02 with the least technical knowledge required.
> >
> I'll ask when price updates (stock OR mutual fund) last worked for
> you.  Yahoo stopped supporting that service quite a while ago, and it
> was discussed significantly on this and the developers mailing lists.
> The problem is with Yahoo, and not with KMyMoney, so there is not much
> to do on this end, except find another source.  However, that is
> completely separate from updating your software.
>
> Ubuntu 16.0.4 is pretty old, but still supported until next April.  The
> main problem is that version is still using KDE4 libraries.  KMyMoney
> 5.0 and later use KDE Frameworks, which are a major update, and not all
> bits of the version 4 libraries and version 5 frameworks can coexist
> (although most are OK.)  I'm a bit surprised that Ubuntu doesn't have
> 4.8 available, which isn't 5.0, but 4.6 is very old, and has had no
> updates in a long time.  I don't use Ubuntu, so it's only an educated
> guess, but I think your best bet would be to try using Clay Weber's PPA
> (https://launchpad.net/~claydoh/+archive/ubuntu/kmymoney-testing).
> There are instructions on that page, and hopefully someone who has done
> it will be able to help with any problems you have.
>
> One thing I would also ask is what exact version of Ubuntu are you on?
> If not 16.04.5, updating to that might get you to 4.8, and I'll guess
> that the PPA I mentioned might assume you are fully up to date with
> whatever version of Ubuntu you are using.
>
> Jack
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