Ubuntu 7.10 and Stata 10

Ubuntu 7.10 is no doubt the best Linux distro so far. I had some problem installing Stata 10 on my Ubuntu box. When I typed "xstata-se", I got "./xstata: error while loading shared libraries: libtiff.so.3: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory". Google search pointed me to this url:

http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/unix/libtiff.html

and this:

http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/unix/dynamiclibs.html

Fortunately, the solution is simple: just download the file " tiff-3.7.4.tar.gz", compile and install it, Stata works just fine.