Dockerfile

# syntax=docker/dockerfile:1.2
# First stage
FROM ubuntu:22.04 as install
# cheating for now
ARG VERSION=18
COPY bin-exclude/stata-installed-${VERSION}.tgz /root/stata.tgz
RUN cd / && tar xzf $HOME/stata.tgz \
    && mv /usr/local/stata${VERSION} /usr/local/stata \ 
    && rm $HOME/stata.tgz 
# make sure we don't accidentally copy in the license
RUN test -f /usr/local/stata/stata.lic && rm /usr/local/stata/stata.lic || echo "Not found" \
    && test -f /usr/local/stata/stata.lic.bak && rm /usr/local/stata/stata.lic.bak || echo "Not found"

# Final build
FROM ubuntu:22.04
RUN apt-get update \
    && DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive apt-get upgrade -y  \
    && DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive apt-get install -y \
         locales \
         libncurses5 \
         libcurl4 \
         libfontconfig1 \
         git \
         nano \
         unzip \
    && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/* \
    && localedef -i en_US -c -f UTF-8 -A /usr/share/locale/locale.alias en_US.UTF-8
# Create a non-root user
RUN groupadd -g 1000 stata \ 
    && useradd -r -u 1000 -g stata statauser \
    && mkdir -p /home/statauser \
    && chown statauser:stata /home/statauser

# Set a few more things
ENV LANG en_US.utf8

# copying from first stage
COPY --from=install /usr/local/stata/ /usr/local/stata/
RUN echo "export PATH=/usr/local/stata:${PATH}" >> /root/.bashrc
ENV PATH "$PATH:/usr/local/stata" 

USER statauser:stata
WORKDIR /project
VOLUME /project

# if you wanted to make this a project specific image,
# do the following:
#
#  COPY setup.do /setup.do
#  RUN stata -b do /setup.do
#

ENTRYPOINT ["stata-mp"]