STATA 16 on Ubuntu 19.10

[Hong-Yi Tu Ye]

Hi,
Has anyone tried to install Stata 16 (Linux 64 bit non-legacy) on Ubuntu 19.10 successfully? I keep getting errors such as

/usr/local/stata16/stata: error while loading shared libraries: libtinfo.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
/usr/local/stata16/stata: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libtinfo.so.5: version `NCURSES_TINFO_5.0.19991023' not found (required by /usr/local/stata16/stata)

The latter occurs when I force STATA to use /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libtinfo.so.6.1 instead of /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libtinfo.so.5

Thanks!

[David Lambert]

Sorry this is months later, but I just installed on Unbuntu 19.10.

I was able to get Stata 16 to run by installing the libtinfo5 package from the default Ubuntu repository. In my case, I also had to install the libgtk2.0 package to run windowed xstata. Windowed xstata ran just fine, but threw a nonfatal error regarding libcanberrra-gtk-module, so I installed that package as well.

[llinfeng]

I, too, stumbled into the same error message on a Linux Mint machine. As David said, installing from the default Ubuntu repository worked. The following one-liner helped to start Stata from the command line:

sudo apt install libtinfo5