[Richard Williams]

I just uninstalled and re-installed and it worked fine. Try again. If problems persist it may be a problem on your end. See Nick's post #3.

[Randy MacIntosh]

Thank you Richard for the reply.

I discovered the problem I encountered was due to using an older version (Stata 14) and the included Java runtime, which because of it's age, had an out-of-date cacerts file. (That's the file that contains a listing of valid certification authentication certificates.) As might be expected, the 7-year-old cacerts file does not include a reference to the current cert. used by the fileserver at Stanford. Therefore, my access to the files were blocked and I got the 'no path' error message.

My workaround was to install a current version of Java (Microsoft OpenJDK) on an old laptop, then copy and paste the cacerts file from that installation over into my C:\Program Files (x86)\Stata14\utilities\java\windows-x64\jre1.8.0_121\lib\security directory on my desktop.

This allowed my desktop computer to handshake with the Stanford server and I was able to install the Spost13_ado package.

This worked for me. Your mileage might vary.

I guess I probably need to develop an Stata 19 acquisition campaign over at OnlyFans.

[Alexander Langenkamp]

Dear all,

sadly, I still have the installation issues some members have described and I struggle figuring it out. I work on windows.

"net from https://spost.su.domains/" leads to the error on the stata 19 version of my university:
https://spost.su.domains/ either
1) is not a valid URL, or
2) could not be contacted, or
3) is not a Stata download site (has no stata.toc file).

weirdly, on my old stata 15 version on my home pc it works. Setting the stata19 version to stata 15 with "version15" does not change it, so it shouldnt be the STATA Version itself.

I am not sure how to deal with this issue using the two commands Nick Cox mentioned in post 3 - can someone elaborate how they help me with the diagnosis?

sorry if this is redundant

also: is it possible to simply copy the ado files from my stata 15 version to another pc/stata version so that the program can execute the ado?

[Alexander Langenkamp]

ok for all the desperate souls out there: in my case it seems to be an issue regarding the administrator rights how I can install stuff at the university. However: if you have the spost13 ados installed on another system you can do the following:
1) copy all ado folders from STATA where the installation worked (yes, the entire folders, not just single files). If we reinstall the ado, you can see what folders are the right ones (see the date the folders were generated)
2) copy them (if its to large as a zip file - then you have to unpack them later)
3) open stata in the system where you want to install the ado. Type "sysdir" in the command window
4) Open the data path "plus" that pops up after executing step 3. Typically, it is sth like PLUS: U:\Documents\Stata\ado\plus\
5) paste the folders you copied before to the plus directory.
6) restart stata after the copy process is completed. After the restart, it should recognise the ados. Try whether they are running.