st: Re: manual installation of SSC packages

[Kit Baum <baum@bc.edu>]

As a perusal of your Stata's ssc.ado will show, "ssc install" is  
merely a wrapper for "net install" from a specific target. If there  
are anomalies in the housekeeping of installed packages via  
stata.trk, I would raise that issue with Stata's tech support.

One solution that has been proposed (I believe most recently by  
Richard Williams): equip one machine that does have a good internet  
connection with the appropriate routines, and copy the /ado/*  
directories to the other off-line machines. That does not speak  
directly to the stata.trk issue, but if the net installs work  
properly, stata.trk should be properly updated.


Kit Baum, Boston College Economics
http://ideas.repec.org/e/pba1.html


On Oct 2, 2005, at 2:33 AM, Richard wrote:


> We have unreliable and intermittent access to the internet (here in  
> Dhaka)
> so I would prefer to download packages via ssc and distribute them  
> locally.
> Is it possible to install packages from ssc manually if you do not  
> have
> access to the internet so that they are recorded in the stata.trk  
> file (I
> know that one can copy the files and put them in the appropriate  
> directories
> and directory path, but then they are not recorded in this file)?
> And, while I am about it, why is it that sometimes "ssc install"  
> does not
> record the package in the stata.trk. file? And can you add them to the
> stata.trk file later?
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