Stata on linuxmint 19

[Jacob Stowell]

Dear List,

I was wondering if someone may be able to help me resolve this problem. After a drive failure, I had to reinstall Stata on my linuxmint 19 machine. When I start the program (both versions 14 and 15), the icons are not displayed (pictures attached below). I searched around a bit and see that this is a problem that others have experienced. In my attempt to resolve the issue, I tried the stata-png-fix-master and stata-integration-master approaches[1], but neither are working for me. I am not sure what to do next and was hoping that someone might have been able to get Stata running properly on the most recent version of mint (Tara). My computer is running kernel version 4.15.0-generic. Thank you in advance and I look forward to your thoughts. Or, if there is a better place to post this, please let me know.

Sincerely,
Jake Stowell

[1] https://www.iamsulthan.in/stata-miss...-linux-solved/

[Jimmy Yang]

Stata requires libpng library.
Check that.
You need to install all the required libraries that Stata needs.

[Felix Bittmann]

Sadly this bug was not fixed yet. There exist some workarounds.
First of all make sure to install some requirements:

sudo apt get install build-essential

Then I used this fix which worked fine for me:
https://github.com/dirtyhawk/stata-integration

[Stephen Sheppard]

My install of Stata was working fine on Ubuntu 18.04, but an upgrade of Codeweavers Crossover broke the icons - presumably because it installed an upgraded version of libpng. Felix Bittman's suggestion fixed the problem and the icons have returned! Thanks, Felix.