Stata

STATA is a general-purpose statistical software package for *nix, Windows and Mac. In the following you'll be presented with how to install STATA and the needed libraries.

Needed libraries

You need to install a series of libraries to run Stata. Stata uses the GTK+ framework.

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If you use GNOME, install libgtksourceviewmmAUR and libgnomeprintAUR.

Installing Stata

After you have installed these packages, you need to insert your STATA DVD and mount it.

If you have been provided an ISO rather than a physical DVD you can mount it with the following command

# mount -o loop /path/to/file.iso /mnt

If you have been provided a DVD and it is not automatically mounted, you can use the following command to mount it to /mnt

# mount -t iso9660 -o ro /dev/cdrom /mnt

You then need to create a directory for Stata. Stata recommends putting it under /usr/local/. For example:

# mkdir /usr/local/stata12

Once you have created the directory, change into it:

$ cd /usr/local/stata12

and run the installer from the directory you mounted the CD into (/mnt in this guide):

# /mnt/installer

Follow the instructions and you will end up with Stata installed.

After you have installed Stata, change the permissions on /usr/local/stata12 so you can execute it as a normal user:

# chmod -R 755 /usr/local/stata12

Tips and tricks

To add Stata to your path, add the following to the end of your path in your bashrc:

~/.bashrc
PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/stata12/