net install from GitHub fails

[Ivica Rubil]

Dear all,

I am trying to make a package installable from GitHub via the command -net install-. I have provided on GitHub all the files required, including the stata.toc file, but the package still cannot be installed (the message "nothing to install" appears when the following command is issued:

net install qstat, replace from(https://github.com/irubil/qstat/blob/main/)

Here is a link to GitHub: https://github.com/irubil/qstat

How can I make the package installable using -net install-?

Thanks.

ir

[daniel klein]

You must create a pkg-file. See

help usersite

and the respective pdf entries for a detailed description.

EDIT: OK, you already did that.

Try

net from "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/irubil/qstat/main"

[Richard Williams]

I'm not sure what the programmer needs to do, but anyone who wants to install from github may want to first install E. F. Haghish's github program:

https://haghish.github.io/github/ (description of program)

or just do

net install github, from("https://haghish.github.io/github/")

To get qstat,

github install irubil/qstat

[Ivica Rubil]

Daniel and Richard,

thanks to both of you. The issue was that I used the wrong link. The right link is the one Daniel provided.

Ivica