st: Re: installing V10, v9

[Kit Baum <baum@bc.edu>]

This is _extremely_ bad advice. The "ados that are not there" include  
80%+ of the code of official Stata, and they need to be in sync with  
the executable. Those ados need to be installed from the original  
media, then brought up to date with -update-, if you are going to  
have a hope of using this version of Stata. Someone might  
misinterpret these instructions as "copy the UPDATES and BASE folders  
to my Stata 9 installation; as they work for Stata 10, they must be  
better than those for Stata 9, so I'll use those instead." Guaranteed  
that you will get very strange behavior out of Stata 9 if the  
adofiles are not those distributed with Stata 9.


> How comes it depends on the OS???
Because Windows, Mac OS X and *nix have different conventions for  
where these files live, and what should happen in the GUI if you  
double-click on a do-file, or dta file, or .gph file.

Earlier in today's digest we saw an example where advice to use /tmp  
did not work for another user. It works fine for me, and for every  
user who eschews Windows. There are necessarily some platform- 
specific conventions which must be respected. One of them relates to  
an executable that can be launched from the command line; as is amply  
discussed in Stata manuals and FAQs, those cannot be installed in  
arbitrary locations or the licensing will not work.


Kit Baum, Boston College Economics and DIW Berlin
http://ideas.repec.org/e/pba1.html
An Introduction to Modern Econometrics Using Stata:
http://www.stata-press.com/books/imeus.html


On Feb 21, 2008, at 02:33 , statalist-digest wrote:


> How comes it depends on the OS???
>
> You download the latest executable from Stata's website, put it
> in any folder. Create file isstata.100 with one line
> "STATA is better than SPSS" there.
> Launch it (binary). It will ask you for registration
> information - enter whatever you've received with your installation
> from Stata Corp (it will create Stata.lic) and off you go. Of course
> all the ADOs are not there, but then you can decide which ones
> you need and put them along the adopath.
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