I need Stata on my laptop and I'm new to Ubuntu. I have a folder with some taz files but I'm not sure what to do with them. I installed it given the instructions provided but it won't open, it gives me this error:

• Stata 12 Trial Version
• Stata 15 Serial Number
• Stata Software Version 12

Here are the instructions that it came with

Before starting:

Stata 12 Trial Version

Your search for Stata 12 Activation Code will produce better results if you simplify your keywords and exclude words like: serial, key, number, code, activation. Mar 08, 2012 The register code for STATA/MP is: The Serial Number: 2. Oct 25, 2016 - To be precise, Stata will run through command line (i.e. Terminal) after this installation. You can just update to a newer build of Stata 12.

1. Unzip the file Stata12_Linux

2. Choose 32-bits or 64-bits

   or

Use the Serial Number, Code and Authorization given by SloveniaX

Congratulations!! Stata 12 is installed.
./xstata

2 Answers

Had the same problem with the same installation procedure. To be precise, Stata will run through command line (i.e. terminal) after this installation process, but thats pretty useless as one uses Stata only for the friendly GUI, right? For using the GUI, we need the packages libgnomeprint2.2-0 and libgtksourceview2.0-0, which are not supported by Ubuntu 16.04. Solved this by adding the old repositories of Ubuntu 12.04 (the last one to support those packages I believe) into Ubuntu 16.04 apt sources. Open terminal as administrator and:

Add this line to the sources.list file that opens up:

Save and close. Update new sources in terminal:

Install the erstwhile unsupported packages using:

This did it for me. Stata GUI up and running!

P.S. This solution is NOT BY ME. Read http://people.duke.edu/~aql3/install-stata12-ubuntu1404/

P.P.S. Can anyone tell if this procedure has any side-effects? I mean adding old repositories to newer distributions?

There's an easier way! You can just update to a newer build of Stata 12. To do so, open the non-graphical Stata by running ./stata, then update with update query, then update all.

The updated version doesn't depend on libgtksourceview or libgnomeprint.

Here's what it should look like:

As a side note, you don't have to do all the untarring either. You can just run ./install.

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Stata

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• 2Customize Stata

Text Editor[edit]

• Stata 11 includes a do-file editor with syntax highlighting.
• If you are not using Stata 11, you may want to use an external text editor with syntax highlighting. The list of external text editors are described here (http://fmwww.bc.edu/repec/bocode/t/textEditors.html)

Customize Stata[edit]

Memory[edit]

Stata loads the data in memory. If you are dealing with large datasets, you may have the following error message : no room for more observations . In that case, you just need to increase the amount of memory used by Stata. The maximum depends on your computer.

In Stata 12, these commands are not necessary because memory is managed automatically. Stata will inform you of this change any time you run the set mem command, using this message:

If you want to know more, just type mem

Profile.do[edit]

• profile.do is executed each time you open Stata. It is a simple do-file which should be located in the same directory as the .exe (Windows) or .app (Mac OS) file. You can define your ado files directory and store them in profile.do

System Parameters[edit]

• query gives all the system parameter
• help limits gives all the limits (ie maximum number of observations, maximum number of variable, maximum length of a string, etc).
• sysdir gives all the ado directories :

• about gives information about your version of Stata

User-written ado files[edit]

• SSC website : a website that includes user-written Stata commands.
• ssc whatsnew : a command showing what's new in SSC
• ssc des : a command describing a user written command.

• ssc install : a command to install new commands from SSC

• ssc des a : a command describing all the SSC commands which names begins with 'a'

If you want to find new ado files, just use the findit command. For instance if you want to find new command about poverty, type :

Stata 15 Serial Number

Stata Software Version 12