Re: st: Problems with updating

[Richard Williams <Richard.A.Williams.5@nd.edu>]

At 09:42 AM 3/20/2005 -0500, you wrote:
> I've reinstalled STATA after rebuilding my computer. Running
> -update all- from version 8.0 in Windows, I get this error message:
>
>         downloading linestyle-p#line.style
> file http://www.stata.com/updates3/ado/linestyle-p#line.style not found
> server says file temporarily redirected to
> http://www.stata.com/error/404.html
> r(601);
>
> Does anyone else have problems with this? Is there a workaround,
> so that I can tell Stata to ignore this file? There is a lot to
> download, and I'd rather not do it manually.
As Allen McDowell has pointed out, there was a bug in the initial 
release.  Update the executable first.  Solution:

update executable
update swap
update all

-update all- should then be ok in the future.


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