Package installation

[Zuhumnan Dapel]

Dear All,
I have this error message when attempting to install a package:

package name: st0085_2.pkg
from: http://www.stata-journal.com/software/sj14-2/

checking st0085_2 consistency and verifying not already installed...
cannot write in directory c:\ado\plus\_

.

Any help is welcome.

Thanks,
Dapel

[Apoorva Lal]

Sounds like you don't have write privileges to C:\ado\plus , which is the default location where ssc install writes to. You can set a different directory by running

sysdir set plus "//folder//you/can/write/to"

before running ssc install. If you have write credentials to stata's installation location, you can save a script called 'profile.do' with the above sysdir set command so that ssc install writes to your new location by default.

[Zuhumnan Dapel]

Thanks Apoorva. I got stuck here:

sysdir
   STATA:  C:\Program Files (x86)\Stata13\
    BASE:  C:\Program Files (x86)\Stata13\ado\base\
    SITE:  C:\Program Files (x86)\Stata13\ado\site\
    PLUS:  c:\ado\plus\
PERSONAL:  c:\ado\personal\
OLDPLACE:  c:\ado\

Any more help?
Dapel

[Scott Adams]

Old thread but in case it helps someone else (or future me): The method above work but "plus" must be upper case.
This works when you are forced to work on a remote server with tight security and therefore cannot write to C:\ (as I am).

//view your system directories
sysdir 

//change PLUS to your folder
sysdir set PLUS "U:/My Documents/ado"

//install
ssc install whatever

//CHANGE PLUS BACK
sysdir set PLUS "c:\ado\plus"

//don't forget to add the target folder to ado path 
adopath +"U:/My Documents/ado"