source: pst/typesetting/biber.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN"
   "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd" [
  <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../../general.ent">
  %general-entities;

<!--
  When a proper url is not evident, github will download with
  https://github.com/ <path> /archive/<version>/<name>-<version>.tar.<compression>

  <!ENTITY biber-download-http "https://github.com/plk/biber/archive/v&biber-version;.tar.gz">
-->
  <!ENTITY biber-download-http "https://github.com/plk/biber/archive/v&biber-version;/biber-&biber-version;.tar.gz">
  <!ENTITY biber-download-ftp  " ">
  <!ENTITY biber-md5sum        "a7f400cdac3a3d9d9ab13ca053eb6791">
  <!ENTITY biber-size          "1.6 MB">
  <!-- Buildsize includes the installed biblatex, except that what matters is
    the difference from the files shipped by texlive, so usually the addition is
    minimal. Copy full texmf to somewhere for working, measure with du -shm,
    then install biblatex over the top of it and remeasure.
    For 3.16, texmf grew by 3MB -->
  <!ENTITY biber-buildsize     "15 MB (installs 1.6MB of perl modules)"> <!-- only include biblatex size if texmf grows -->
  <!ENTITY biber-time          "0.4 SBU including tests">

  <!-- FIXME - ok to comment biblatex when version for a new year matches
   what is in texmf-dist. For new version, reinstate to avoid runtime error.
   The texmf version is at 'revision=' in texmf/doc/latex/biblatex/biblatex.tex -->
  <!-- Check path.  Directory might not be &biblatex-version; if a suffixed update -->
 
  <!ENTITY biblatex-download-http   "https://sourceforge.net/projects/biblatex/files/biblatex-&biblatex-version;/biblatex-&biblatex-version;.tds.tgz">
  <!ENTITY biblatex-download-ftp    "">
  <!ENTITY biblatex-md5sum          "6c4117fd06e12854495a3777523d5372">
  <!ENTITY biblatex-size            "19 MB">
  <!-- this usually overwrites files in texmf-dist¸use du -sm to measure
      before and after - 'buildsize' might easily be unchanged, or add to biber above -->
  <!-- Unchanged for 3.20, it overwrote everything from 3.19 and rounded to same size -->
]>

<sect1 id="biber" xreflabel="biber-&biber-version;">
  <?dbhtml filename="biber.html"?>


  <title>biber-&biber-version;</title>

  <indexterm zone="biber">
    <primary sortas="a-biber">Biber</primary>
  </indexterm>

  <sect2 role="package">
    <title>Introduction to biber</title>

    <para>
      Biber is a BibTeX replacement for users of biblatex, written in
      <application>Perl</application>, with full Unicode support.
    </para>

    &lfs121_checked;

    <!-- note for editors: FIXME please test this by using the latest
         version of the latex-test tarball from
         https://www.linuxfromscratch.org/~ken/tex-testfiles/
         using ./configure (to create the Makefile) and then making the
         following targets:
         biblatex-unibiber and biblatex-biber (these just use pdflatex
         and biber, biblatex-unibiber is more important, it uses UTF-8)
         bibxelatex (uses xelatex and biber, needs TTF or OTF fonts and
         in particular coverage of simplified Chinese and Japanese, and
         optionally Korean - installed fonts for CJK can be specified to
         configure if they are not found)
         remote1 and remote2 (pdflatex and biber, for use with manually
         installed perl modules, i.e. without Mozilla::CA, to prove that
         remote references work).
         In all cases the output PDF should include references at the
         end, the Makefile does not check that for the remote tests.
         The biblatex-biber test only uses latex, trad markup, and
         biber, biblatex.
 -->

    <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Package Information</bridgehead>
    <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Download (HTTP): <ulink url="&biber-download-http;"/>
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Download (FTP): <ulink url="&biber-download-ftp;"/>
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Download MD5 sum: &biber-md5sum;
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Download size: &biber-size;
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Estimated disk space required: &biber-buildsize;
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Estimated build time: &biber-time;
        </para>
      </listitem>
    </itemizedlist>

    <note>

      <para>
        The <application>biber</application> source tarball shown above
        downloads with the correct name, biber-&biber-version;.tar.gz,
        if using a browser such as Firefox. If you prefer to use a command line
        program such as wget, you normally would obtain
        v&biber-version;.tar.gz. To obtain this package with the proper
        filename, run:

<screen><userinput>wget -c &biber-download-http; \
     -O biber-&biber-version;.tar.gz</userinput></screen>.
      </para>

      <para>
        If you have updated to a new release of texlive-source, biber and its
        perl dependencies are still present in <filename
        class="directory">/usr</filename> and do not need to be rebuilt.
        However, biblatex installs in <filename
        class="directory">/opt/texlive/&texlive-year;</filename> and does
        need to be reinstalled.
      </para>

      <para>
        If you installed the above dependencies using the BLFS instructions
        for each of them, <command>perl ./Build.PL</command> will complain
        that Mozilla::CA is not installed, but that is not needed unless
        CPAN was used to install the modules. BLFS patches LWP::Protocol::https
        to use the system certificates, Mozilla::CA uses old certificates.
      </para>

<!--  <para> ##commented as a reminder that sooner or later it will need a
        newer version than our current or last but one release ##
        This version of biber requires <application>perl-5.30</application>
        or later.  If you are still using the 8.4 version of BLFS you may
        wish to build the 2.13 version: see the 8.4 book noting that
        biblatex-3.13 has been replaced by biblatex-3.13a upstream.
      </para>-->
    </note>

    <!-- TexLive 2024 shipped biblatex-3.19.  Uncomment if a newer
         biber requires a newer biblatex.  -->

  <!-- FIXME - ok to comment biblatex when version for a new year matches
   what is in texmf-dist. For new version, reinstate to avoid runtime error.-->
    <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Required Additional Download</bridgehead>

    <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Download (HTTP): <ulink url="&biblatex-download-http;"/>
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Download MD5 sum: &biblatex-md5sum;
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Download size: &biblatex-size;
        </para>
      </listitem>
    </itemizedlist>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Biber Dependencies</bridgehead>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Required</bridgehead>
    <para role="required">
      <!-- KFM: the order listed in Build.PL is not alphabetical -->
      <xref linkend="perl-autovivification"/>
      <xref linkend="perl-business-isbn"/>
      <xref linkend="perl-business-ismn"/>
      <xref linkend="perl-business-issn"/>
      <xref linkend="perl-class-accessor"/>
      <xref linkend="perl-data-compare"/>
      <xref linkend="perl-data-dump"/>
      <xref linkend="perl-data-uniqid"/>
      <xref linkend="perl-datetime-calendar-julian"/>
      <xref linkend="perl-datetime-format-builder"/>
      <xref linkend="perl-encode-eucjpascii"/>
      <xref linkend="perl-encode-hanextra"/>
      <xref linkend="perl-encode-jis2k"/>
      <xref linkend="perl-file-slurper"/>
      <xref linkend="perl-io-string"/>
      <!-- IPC::Cmd is a part of core perl -->
      <xref linkend="perl-ipc-run3"/>
      <xref linkend="perl-lingua-translit"/>
      <xref linkend="perl-list-allutils"/>
      <xref linkend="perl-list-moreutils"/>
      <!-- perl-list-moreutils-xs is a dep of perl-list-moreutils -->
      <xref linkend="perl-log-log4perl"/>
      <xref linkend="perl-lwp-protocol-https"/>
      <!-- LWP::Simple dep for this protocol is part of perl-libwww-perl,
      that is pulled in by perl-lwp-protocol-https and that pulls in
      perl-uri. Biber lists LWP::UserAgent as a dep, again it is part
      of perl-libwww-perl. -->
      <xref linkend="perl-module-build"/>
      <xref linkend="perl-parse-recdescent"/>
      <xref linkend="perl-perlio-utf8_strict"/>
      <!-- Mozilla::CA should not be needed when using system certificates -->
      <xref linkend="perl-regexp-common"/>
      <xref linkend="perl-sort-key"/>
      <xref linkend="perl-text-bibtex"/>
      <xref linkend="perl-text-csv"/>
      <!-- perl-text-csv_xs is a recommended dependency for perl-text-csv -->
      <xref linkend="perl-text-roman"/>
      <!-- Unicode-Collate usually needs to be latest when biber is released,
        core perl is usually older. To read the core version, look at
        /usr/lib/perl5/5.xx.y/x86_64-linux-thread-multi/Unicode/Collate.pm -->
      <xref linkend="perl-unicode-collate"/>
      <!-- Unicode::GCstring is part of Unicode::LineBreak -->
      <xref linkend="perl-unicode-linebreak"/>
      <!-- Unicode::Normalize is part of core perl, found in
        /usr/lib/perl5/5.xx.y/x86_64-linux-thread-multi/Unicode/Normalize.pm -->
      <!-- perl-xml-libxml is a dependency of perl-xml-libxml-simple -->
      <xref linkend="perl-xml-libxml-simple"/>
      <xref linkend="perl-xml-libxslt"/>
      <xref linkend="perl-xml-writer"/>
      <!-- untarring biblatex requires that the texmf directories already exist -->
      <!--
      <xref linkend="texlive"/>
      (or <xref linkend="tl-installer"/>, but for that you can use
       <command>tlmgr update</command>)
      -->
    </para>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Recommended (required for the test suite)</bridgehead>
    <para role="recommended">
      <xref linkend="perl-file-which"/> and
      <xref linkend="perl-test-differences"/>
    </para>

    <note>
      <para>
        It is possible to install all missing dependencies automatically. You
        must first install <xref linkend="perl-module-build"/> using <xref
        linkend="perl-auto-install"/>. Then run <command>perl
        ./Build.PL</command> and when it prompts you, become the &root; user
        and run <command>./Build installdeps</command> - this will use CPAN
        and as noted above it will use Mozilla::CA instead of using system
        certificates.
      </para>
    </note>

  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="installation">
    <title>Installation of Biber</title>

    <!-- https://github.com/plk/biber/commit/d9e9617 -->
    <!--
    <para>
      Fix an issue building this package with Perl 5.36 or later:
    </para>

<screen><userinput remap="pre">sed 's/undef$/&amp;;/' -i lib/Biber/Section.pm</userinput></screen>
-->
    <para>
      Install <application>Biber</application> by running the following
      commands:
    </para>

<screen><userinput>perl ./Build.PL &amp;&amp;
./Build</userinput></screen>

    <para>
      To test the results, enter: <command>./Build test</command>
    </para>

    <para>
      Now, as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:
    </para>
<!--
<screen role="root"><userinput>tar -xf ../biblatex-&biblatex-version;.tds.tgz -C /opt/texlive/&texlive-year;/texmf-dist &amp;&amp;
texhash &amp;&amp;
-->
<screen role="root"><userinput>./Build install</userinput></screen>
<!-- Editor note: As for any ./Build type perl module, use destdir=
     after the command for DESTDIR. -->

<!--<para>
      The corresponding version of <application>biblatex</application> is
      a separate project.  The tarball is pre-packaged for untarring
      into the <filename class="directory">texmf-dist</filename>
      directory. Install it as the &root; user:
    </para>

<screen role="root"><userinput>tar -C $TEXLIVE_PREFIX/texmf-dist -xf ../biblatex-&biblatex-version;.tds.tgz</userinput></screen>-->

  </sect2>
<!--
  <sect2 role="commands">
    <title>Command Explanations</title>

    <para>
      <command>tar -xf biblatex-&biblatex-version;.tds.tar.gz -C
      /opt/texlive/&texlive-year;/texmf-dist</command>:
      this installs the new <application>biblatex</application> files over those
      installed by <application>texlive</application>.
    </para>

    <para>
      <command>texhash</command> : this updates the file hash tables (otherwise
      known as the file name database).
    </para>

  </sect2>
-->
  <sect2 role="content">
    <title>Contents</title>

    <segmentedlist>
      <segtitle>Installed Programs</segtitle>
      <segtitle>Installed Library</segtitle>
      <segtitle>Installed Directory</segtitle>

      <seglistitem>
        <seg>biber</seg>
        <seg>None</seg>
        <seg>/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.*{,/&lt;arch&gt;-linux/auto}/Biber</seg>
      </seglistitem>
    </segmentedlist>

    <variablelist>
      <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
      <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
      <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>

      <varlistentry id="biber-prog">
        <term><command>biber</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            is used for producing bibliographies in LaTeX documents
          </para>
          <indexterm zone="biber biber-prog">
            <primary sortas="b-biber">biber</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

    </variablelist>

  </sect2>

</sect1>