st: RedHat 7.3 and stata

[Henrik St�vring <hs@ncrr.dk>]

Dear All,

This is a message for all using Stata 7 on an updated RedHat 7.3: 
Version 5.2 of the package ncurses is not compatible with Stata 7, and 
this will disallow you to run Stata in non-GUI-mode. The remedy I found, 
was to install a package providing backwards compatibility, ie. 
ncurses4-5.0-5.i386.rpm, available from rpmfind. I think Stata should 
consider updating their executables so as to make them compatible with 
the newest versions of the ncurses library.

Best,

Henrik

PS: The error message is shown below:

[localhost]# stata
/usr/local/stata/stata: error while loading shared libraries: 
libncurses.so.4: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory


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