Re: st: Running old Stata (8.0) on new Ubuntu

[John-Paul Ferguson <jpferg@MIT.EDU>]

Dave, I've run into problems of my own installing (dynamically linked) Stata 9
on ubuntu but eventually figured out how to resolve the library dependencies
and permissions. I wrote a small web page about it so I'd remember next time.
It's for Stata 9, but might help with 8:

http://abml.org/~jferguson/stata9_on_ubuntu.html

Hope it helps.

John-Paul Ferguson
MIT

Quoting Daniel Stegmueller <d.stegmueller@gmail.com>:

> Dave,
>
> since noone responded I throw in some 'programming half-knowledge':
>
> "assert" is a piece of code you put in to catch exceptions that 
> should  not happen. What it exactly stands for is only known to the  
> programmer...
>
> You should contact Stata for support (if they offer it for old  
> versions) but my guess would be that there isn't a simple solution,  
> since the libraries Stata has been build against are so much older  
> than the ones used by the Ubuntu people (you might have more luck 
> with  a stable Debian distribution but that is far from a 'simple'  
> solution....)
>
> Best,
> Daniel
>
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> > Hello,
> >
> > I happen to have an old license for Intercooled Stata 8 for Unix  which I
> > tried installing on a new Ubuntu 8.04 ("Hardy") workstation.
> >
> > 'stata' runs fine, but 'xstata' does not:
> >
> >  $ /usr/local/stata/xstata
> >
> >  xstata: dynamic-link.h:57: elf_get_dynamic_info: Assertion `! "bad  
> > dynamic tag"' failed.
> >
> > The installation is is statically-linked, rather than dynamic, because
> > there appeared to be a lot of library incompatibilities when I tried  the
> > dynamically-linked approach (which I tried first).
> >
> > Can anyone help here?  I'd prefer not to upgrade if there's a simple
> > solution to the problem.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Dave.
> >
> > --
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