Using Stata on Ubuntu

[eumetaxas]

Confirm.
xstata 10 works fine in Ubuntu.
But i am making my jump to R - moving from stata to R isn't to difficult.

[chrisby]

@eumetaxas

How is R now (genuine question, I am not trolling)? I played with it a little bit when I started graduate school, but felt like I was reinventing the wheel coding things built into stata.

[mdwy62]

These directions were fantastic! Thank you. A couple of comments.

First, I think it's worth point out that we have to be logged on as root to do this.

Second, there is a typo in the install line. cdrom0 shouldn't be there:
/tmp/statainstall/install

Question - the last time I installed Stata for Linux I think I was able to update Stata (e.g., update all) without starting Stata as root. I don't remember how I got this to work. Does anybody know how to do this?

Thanks again - these instructions really should be available on the Stata website.

dynamically linked works fine. It looks for libtiff.so.3, but if you make a symbolic link the program works great. Here are the instructions for a ubuntu install. I first did this with hardy, but it works fine with intrepid

I have stata 10 installed on ubuntu and it works perfectly. Here is how I got it to run:

mkdir /usr/local/stata10
cd /usr/local/
chmod a+rx /usr/local/stata10
cd /usr/local/stata10
mkdir /tmp/statainstall
cp -r /media/cdrom0 /tmp/statainstall
/tmp/statainstall/cdrom0/install

follow prompts

now xstata-se doesn't run because it is looking for libtiff.so.3

This is old so make a symbolic link to your current version

ln -s /usr/lib/libtiff.so.4 /usr/lib/libtiff.so.3

now stata should run fine.

[cmfrtblynmb]

Also after doing all these, you may have to run this one as well:

sudo ln -s /usr/lib/libgtksourceview-2.0.so.0 /usr/lib/libgtksourceview-1.0.so.0

[cmfrtblynmb]

Also, after running all these:

dynamically linked works fine. It looks for libtiff.so.3, but if you make a symbolic link the program works great. Here are the instructions for a ubuntu install. I first did this with hardy, but it works fine with intrepid

I have stata 10 installed on ubuntu and it works perfectly. Here is how I got it to run:

mkdir /usr/local/stata10
cd /usr/local/
chmod a+rx /usr/local/stata10
cd /usr/local/stata10
mkdir /tmp/statainstall
cp -r /media/cdrom0 /tmp/statainstall
/tmp/statainstall/cdrom0/install

follow prompts

now xstata-se doesn't run because it is looking for libtiff.so.3

This is old so make a symbolic link to your current version

ln -s /usr/lib/libtiff.so.4 /usr/lib/libtiff.so.3

now stata should run fine.

you may have to run this last piece of command as well, then you'll be fine:

sudo ln -s /usr/lib/libgtksourceview-2.0.so.0 /usr/lib/libgtksourceview-1.0.so.0

[den2042]

Thank you so much! Helped a lot!

[Benic]

Did you guys manage to install Stata in 10.04? I've recently done a clean install of Lucid, but I just can't install Stata. Whenever I come to the last command, the install command, I get "command not found", with or without ./

I just don't get it, do I miss a prerequisite?

[beew]

Hi,

Just found this thread when searching. I have just installed STATA 10 on my Ubuntu 10.04 laptop. It is working fine, except when I try to update. I got the error message the "servers refused to send files". I looked up the stata site and apparently it has something to do with proxy settings, but I have not set any proxy as far as I know and the trouble shooting tips at STATA's site makes sense only for Windows (click menu bar and choose preference... there is no bloody menu bar in the Linux version!)

I wonder if anyone knows what the problem is and how to work around it. Thanks.

[beew]

Oh, nevermind. It turns out to be just bad connection. It has updated successfully.

[knattlhuber]

Speaking of updating: There is a really bad bug in Stata 11 when running under Ubuntu 10.04. It can seriously compromise the accuracy of your calculations (e.g. it changed the values of a variable when I renamed it)
There is an update that fixes the bug, so I would urgently recommend to run

update all

in Stata.
It's probably also a good idea to re-run your calculations from the last couple of months, especially if some results didn't seem to make sense...