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Re: st: Install ado Files on Mac (different from Windows PC?)


From   Nils Braakmann <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: Install ado Files on Mac (different from Windows PC?)
Date   Thu, 13 Jan 2011 08:24:53 +0000

Thanks everyone, it was indeed a permission problem.

Cheers,
Nils

On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 3:19 PM, Sergiy Radyakin <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 3:11 AM, Nils Braakmann
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> I recently downloaded some .ado and .hlp Files from an author's
>> private web page (not set up as a Stata download page). To install
>> them the author recommended simply copying them into the appropriate
>> personal folder (found by -adopath-). Being a former Windows user I
>> remember that this approach always worked fine. However, after doing
>> the same on my Mac Stata does not seem to be able to find the file
>> (i.e., gives the error messages you would expect when a file simply
>> does not exist). Is there anything fundamentally different with
>> installing ado-files on a Mac? (If not I probably messed up somewhere,
>> although I am not entirely sure how I could have managed to do that
>> with copying a file, which seems simple enough...)
>>
>
> Hi, Nils,
>
> 1. When installing ado files, Stata sorts them into the a,b,c, ... etc
>  subdirectories
> of the plus folder. You may want to study this behavior and make sure you put
> your files accordingly as this may influence which files are findable.
>
> 2. Try to -findfile- your files and see whether they are visible. If
> they are not, then
> it is probably not the permissions problem (or it is folder permissions).
>
> 3. You can always create a .pkg file yourself and -adoinstall- using it.
>
> 4. The command may not be compatible with Mac, e.g. when it is looking for a
> platform-specific plugin, and there is no version for your platform.
>
> 5. You may want to -set trace on- and see whether Stata can't find the file
> corresponding to the command you are executing, or some other file that this
> command depends on. Many commands have additional dependencies, which
> you also need to install in order for the main command to work.
>
> Best, Sergiy Radyakin
>
>
>
>
>
>
>> Cheers,
>> Nils
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