Ok!
It is not too old. Ubuntu goes too fast.
Probably that error is related to GTK and Font libraries. Clever guys
from StataCorp may provide better help.
For now I would ask you to provide us with errors you had while trying
to install dynamically linked libs. I think that you Ubuntu missed some
pack that you can install.
Caveman
Dave Ewart wrote:
> 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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