User talk:Aparthia/Stata

Symlinking

@Fengchao has said "symlink like this is always frowned upon. If so name is changed, it usually means not backward compatiable. So fix the package or rebuild it. Do not use this walk around.". This is true, but Stata is a closed source program and we *cannot* rebuild it. R with RStudio or Python with IPython Notebook are very serviceable substitutes for Stata. If you *must* use Stata though, you have to cow to these. There are similar workarounds needed to get Mathematica on any Linux distribution which has not been Wolfram Approved.

As of Stata14, the instructions *are* out of date though, and I'm not sure why. stata (the command line interface) works exactly as advertised. But xstata flashes its splash screen and then exits, apparently gracefully. Under strace, I see the following; all the libraries it mentions exist (and none of them are libgnomeprint or libgtksourceview). [1]

Kousu (talk) 01:13, 15 May 2015 (UTC)

Nevertheless, the argument still stands, especially when there is an old version of the lib available in the AUR: libgtksourceviewmm^AUR

Also, please don't dump such huge outputs into the wiki, use some pastebin service instead and only provide a link.

-- Lahwaacz (talk) 06:46, 15 May 2015 (UTC)

But libgtksourceviewmm doesn't build because, among other reasons, it wants gtksourceview-1.0, even after going through several layers of lying to it to try to get it to build against gtksourceview2. Don't edit the wiki without testing if it works!

(Do you really trust github more than the archwiki for continuity?)

Kousu (talk) 18:38, 29 June 2015 (UTC)

The problem still exists and no solution so far?

Torstenchr (talk) 08:29, 9 May 2016 (UTC)

No Icons

Resonding to: "What are the exact needed versions? You might just install libpng12^AUR, libpng14^AUR or libpng15^AUR." The method proposed to add icons is the method recommended directly from StataCorp as per the link provided. I don't know what particular libraries were used to compile Stata12 or Stata13, and no error messages are displayed when the program is run from the console, unlike the above issue on symlinking. Even if one of the AUR packages suggested solves the issue, which I haven't tested, the method proposed is still the official way of solving the issue of no icons. If adding one of the AUR packages does solve the issue, then it should be included along with the method proposed, not as a replacement. Woodape (talk) 23:31, 27 September 2015 (UTC)

- Looking through the StataCorp solution here, it requires libpng-1.6.2 , thus neither libpng12^AUR, libpng14^AUR or libpng15^AUR will likely solve the issue. Woodape (talk) 23:42, 27 September 2015 (UTC)