re: st: ado uninstall q

[David Airey <david.airey@vanderbilt.edu>]

>  Ed wrote
>  I have a seemingly simple question. When I try to uninstall a user 
> written
>  ado file (specifically an older version of estout using the command 
> "ado
>  uninstall estout"), I receive the following error message:
>
>  criterion matches more than one package
>  r(111);
>
>  I must have installed a previous version of estout without removing 
> an even
>  earlier one. I can't see an easy solution listed in the ado help 
> file. How
>  can I remove all older versions of estout (so that I can download the 
> latest
>  version posted to SSC last week?
>
>
>  This is a common problem; the tracking file that Stata uses to figure 
> out what you have done before gets addled. However using the 'replace' 
> option on ssc
>
>  ssc install foo, replace
>
>  will deal with it properly---you don't have to uninstall first. ssc 
> will just overwrite any existing files with what it now downloads.
>
>  Kit
In Stata/SE 8.2, even when you do this, a record of the old version is 
still in the viewer under "ado dir". And you can uninstall a previously 
"overwritten" package. In fact I find I have to uninstall if I don't 
want my ado dir to have multiple copies. Maybe this is only on the OS X 
version?

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