[a9ee0599] | 1 | <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
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| 2 | <!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN"
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| 3 | "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd" [
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| 4 | <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../../general.ent">
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| 5 | %general-entities;
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| 6 |
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[10e632f] | 7 | <!ENTITY biber-download-http "http://sourceforge.net/projects/biblatex-biber/files/biblatex-biber/&biber-version;/biblatex-biber.tar.gz">
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| 8 | <!ENTITY biber-download-ftp " ">
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[7b2c94b] | 9 | <!ENTITY biber-md5sum "fbadc0fc66f8580d94ad140191244545">
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[10e632f] | 10 | <!ENTITY biber-size "2.0 MB">
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[9385c0fe] | 11 | <!-- buildsize includes the installed biblatex -->
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[10e632f] | 12 | <!ENTITY biber-buildsize "37 MB">
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[7b2c94b] | 13 | <!ENTITY biber-time "less than 0.1 SBU (0.8 SBU to run the tests)">
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[9385c0fe] | 14 |
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| 15 | <!ENTITY biblatex-download-http "http://sourceforge.net/projects/biblatex/files/biblatex-&biblatex-version;/biblatex-&biblatex-version;.tds.tgz">
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[c5a4b23] | 16 | <!ENTITY biblatex-download-ftp "">
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[a0751bdc] | 17 | <!ENTITY biblatex-md5sum "0b530b1ad0f7a0ffb05b759df5b980d6">
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[9385c0fe] | 18 | <!ENTITY biblatex-size "19 MB">
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[c5a4b23] | 19 |
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[a9ee0599] | 20 | ]>
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| 21 |
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| 22 | <sect1 id="biber" xreflabel="biber-&biber-version;">
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| 23 | <?dbhtml filename="biber.html"?>
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| 24 |
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| 25 | <sect1info>
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| 26 | <othername>$LastChangedBy$</othername>
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| 27 | <date>$Date$</date>
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| 28 | </sect1info>
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| 29 |
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| 30 | <title>biblatex-biber-&biber-version;</title>
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| 31 |
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| 32 | <indexterm zone="biber">
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| 33 | <primary sortas="a-biber">Biber</primary>
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| 34 | </indexterm>
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| 35 |
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| 36 | <sect2 role="package">
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| 37 | <title>Introduction to biber</title>
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| 38 |
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| 39 | <para>Biber is a BibTeX replacement for users of biblatex, written in
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[10e632f] | 40 | <application>Perl</application>, with full Unicode support.</para>
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[a9ee0599] | 41 |
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[01e6b294] | 42 | &lfs78_checked;
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[a9ee0599] | 43 |
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| 44 | <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Package Information</bridgehead>
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| 45 | <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
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| 46 | <listitem>
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| 47 | <para>Download (HTTP): <ulink url="&biber-download-http;"/></para>
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| 48 | </listitem>
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| 49 | <listitem>
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| 50 | <para>Download (FTP): <ulink url="&biber-download-ftp;"/></para>
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| 51 | </listitem>
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| 52 | <listitem>
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| 53 | <para>Download MD5 sum: &biber-md5sum;</para>
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| 54 | </listitem>
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| 55 | <listitem>
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| 56 | <para>Download size: &biber-size;</para>
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| 57 | </listitem>
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| 58 | <listitem>
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| 59 | <para>Estimated disk space required: &biber-buildsize;</para>
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| 60 | </listitem>
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| 61 | <listitem>
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| 62 | <para>Estimated build time: &biber-time;</para>
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| 63 | </listitem>
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| 64 | </itemizedlist>
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| 65 |
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[a0751bdc] | 66 | <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Required Additional Download</bridgehead>
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| 67 |
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| 68 |
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| 69 | <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
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| 70 | <listitem>
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| 71 | <para>The corresponding version of <application>biblatex</application> is
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| 72 | a separate project - the tds tarball is pre-packaged for untarring into
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| 73 | the <filename class="directory">texmf-dist</filename> directory.
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| 74 | Download (HTTP): <ulink url="&biblatex-download-http;"/></para>
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| 75 | </listitem>
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| 76 | <listitem>
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| 77 | <para>Download MD5 sum: &biblatex-md5sum;</para>
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| 78 | </listitem>
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| 79 | <listitem>
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| 80 | <para>Download size: &biblatex-size;</para>
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| 81 | </listitem>
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| 82 | </itemizedlist>
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[c5a4b23] | 83 |
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[a9ee0599] | 84 | <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Biber Dependencies</bridgehead>
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| 85 |
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| 86 | <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Required</bridgehead>
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| 87 | <para role="required">
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[145cccdf] | 88 | <!-- KFM: because I always get confused by these deps, I've decided
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| 89 | to add some comments.
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| 90 | Both Config::AutoConf and ExtUtils::LibBuilder are listed as build
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| 91 | requirements in Build.PL, the rest are just requirements, but the
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| 92 | difference seems moot. Those two are needed to build Text::BibTeX
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| 93 | so not listed separately. -->
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[a9ee0599] | 94 | <xref linkend="perl-autovivification"/>
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| 95 | <xref linkend="perl-business-isbn"/>
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| 96 | <xref linkend="perl-business-ismn"/>
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| 97 | <xref linkend="perl-business-issn"/>
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| 98 | <xref linkend="perl-data-compare"/>
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[1c80c2c] | 99 | <xref linkend="perl-data-dump"/>
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[a9ee0599] | 100 | <xref linkend="perl-date-simple"/>
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| 101 | <xref linkend="perl-encode-eucjpascii"/>
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| 102 | <xref linkend="perl-encode-hanextra"/>
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| 103 | <xref linkend="perl-encode-jis2k"/>
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| 104 | <xref linkend="perl-file-slurp"/>
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[145cccdf] | 105 | <!-- IPC::Cmd is a part of core perl -->
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[a9ee0599] | 106 | <xref linkend="perl-ipc-run3"/>
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[145cccdf] | 107 | <!-- LWP::Simple is part of libwww-perl,
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| 108 | that is pulled in by LWP::Protocol::https -->
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[a9ee0599] | 109 | <xref linkend="perl-list-allutils"/>
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[145cccdf] | 110 | <!-- List::MoreUtils was pulled in for the testsuite of List::AllUtils,
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| 111 | but it needs to be present even if people do not run the tests -->
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| 112 | <xref linkend="perl-list-moreutils"/>
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| 113 | <xref linkend="perl-log-log4perl"/>
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| 114 | <!-- I initially misread LWP-Protocol-https as part of libwww-perl
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| 115 | when I was preparing this list. In fact, it depends on that -->
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| 116 | <xref linkend="perl-lwp-protocol-https"/>
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| 117 | <!-- Module::Build is pulled in by perl-text-bibtex, but mention it explicitly
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| 118 | so that the note on automatically installing missing dependencies can be run -->
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[10e632f] | 119 | <xref linkend="perl-module-build"/>
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[145cccdf] | 120 | <!-- Mozilla::CA is a dependency of LWP-Protocol-https -->
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[a9ee0599] | 121 | <xref linkend="perl-regexp-common"/>
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| 122 | <xref linkend="perl-text-bibtex"/>
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[9385c0fe] | 123 | <xref linkend="perl-text-roman"/>
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[d0070d69] | 124 | <!-- Collate.pm ships in perl, but is sometimes too old, and we like current
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| 125 | versions. Make the latest version required so that everyone is using the
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[9385c0fe] | 126 | same version. In fact, the version in perl-5.20.2 is indeed too old for
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| 127 | biber-2.0 -->
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[d0070d69] | 128 | <xref linkend="perl-unicode-collate"/>
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[145cccdf] | 129 | <!-- Unicode::GCstring is part of Unicode::LineBreak -->
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[a9ee0599] | 130 | <xref linkend="perl-unicode-linebreak"/>
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| 131 | <xref linkend="perl-xml-libxml-simple"/>
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[c5a4b23] | 132 | <xref linkend="perl-xml-libxslt"/>
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| 133 | <xref linkend="perl-xml-writer"/> and
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[9385c0fe] | 134 | <!-- untarring biblatex requires that the texmf directories already exist -->
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[c5a4b23] | 135 | <xref linkend="texlive"/>
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[a9ee0599] | 136 | </para>
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| 137 |
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| 138 | <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Recommended</bridgehead>
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| 139 | <para role="required">
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[9385c0fe] | 140 | <xref linkend="perl-file-which"/>,
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| 141 | <xref linkend="perl-test-differences"/>,
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| 142 | <xref linkend="perl-test-pod"/> and
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| 143 | <xref linkend="perl-test-pod-coverage"/> (all needed to run the testsuite)
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[a9ee0599] | 144 | </para>
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| 145 |
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| 146 | <note>
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[10e632f] | 147 | <para>
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| 148 | Although the tarball name is unversioned, it will untar to a
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| 149 | correctly-versioned biblatex-biber-&biber-version; directory.
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| 150 | </para>
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| 151 |
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[a9ee0599] | 152 | <para>
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| 153 | It is possible to install (all) missing dependencies automatically.
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[7b2c94b] | 154 | Except, from <application>perl-5.22.0</application> onwards,
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[10e632f] | 155 | <xref linkend="perl-module-build"/> is no longer part of
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| 156 | the core distribution. To automatically install the remaining perl
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[7b2c94b] | 157 | dependencies you will need to manually install that first.
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[10e632f] | 158 | You can then run <command>perl ./Build.PL</command> and when it
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[a9ee0599] | 159 | prompts you, become the root user and run
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| 160 | <command>./Build installdeps</command>
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| 161 | </para>
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[10e632f] | 162 |
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| 163 | <para>
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| 164 | If you run <command>./Build.PL</command> under versions of
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| 165 | <application>perl</application> after 5.20.2 it will tell you that the
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| 166 | version of <application>Unicode::Normalize</application> is too
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| 167 | <emphasis>new</emphasis>. In fact, the new version works, but is now
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| 168 | pure perl and takes longer to run : <emphasis>much</emphasis> longer
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| 169 | if you have a large bibliography. You can find the old version at <ulink
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| 170 | url="http://backpan.perl.org/authors/id/S/SA/SADAHIRO/Unicode-Normalize-1.17.tar.gz"/>
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| 171 | and use the standard <xref linkend="perl-standard-install"/>
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| 172 | to install it if you wish. Further details are in the User Notes.
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| 173 | </para>
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[a9ee0599] | 174 | </note>
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| 175 |
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| 176 | <para condition="html" role="usernotes">User Notes:
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[3e90bfe] | 177 | <ulink url='&blfs-wiki;/biber'/></para>
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[a9ee0599] | 178 |
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| 179 | </sect2>
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| 180 |
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| 181 | <sect2 role="installation">
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| 182 | <title>Installation of Biber</title>
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| 183 |
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| 184 | <para>Install <application>Biber</application> by running the following
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[7b2c94b] | 185 | commands:</para>
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[a9ee0599] | 186 |
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[7b2c94b] | 187 | <screen><userinput>sed -i 's/ 44/ 43/' t/bcfvalidation.t &&
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[10e632f] | 188 | perl ./Build.PL &&
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[0f304418] | 189 | ./Build</userinput></screen>
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[a9ee0599] | 190 |
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[10e632f] | 191 | <para>To test the results, enter: <command>./Build test</command> - you will
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[7b2c94b] | 192 | require the en_GB.UTF-8 and sv_SE.UTF-8 locales. One test
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[10e632f] | 193 | will fail : for speed the tests use system locales instead of the default
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| 194 | Unicode::Collation algorithm, and some minor details of the locales in OSX
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| 195 | (where development takes place) differ from those in
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| 196 | <application>glibc</application></para>
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[a9ee0599] | 197 |
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| 198 | <para>Now, as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:</para>
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| 199 |
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[59e61f7] | 200 | <screen role="root"><userinput>tar -xf ../biblatex-&biblatex-version;.tds.tgz -C /opt/texlive/&texlive-year;/texmf-dist &&
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[c5a4b23] | 201 | texhash &&
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| 202 | ./Build install</userinput></screen>
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| 203 |
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| 204 | </sect2>
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| 205 |
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| 206 | <sect2 role="commands">
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| 207 | <title>Command Explanations</title>
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| 208 |
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[10e632f] | 209 | <para>
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| 210 | <parameter>sed -i 's/ 44/ 43/' t/bcfvalidation.t</parameter>: Although
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| 211 | the git master branch has 44 pairs of files for this test, the shipped
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[7b2c94b] | 212 | tarball only contains 43. The sed prevents it reporting a failure.
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[10e632f] | 213 | </para>
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| 214 |
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[c5a4b23] | 215 | <para>
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[7b2c94b] | 216 | <parameter>tar -xf biblatex-&biblatex-version;.tds.tar.gz -C
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[c5a4b23] | 217 | /opt/texlive/&texlive-year;/texmf-dist</parameter>:
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[9385c0fe] | 218 | this installs the new <application>biblatex</application> files over those
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| 219 | installed by <application>texlive</application>.
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[c5a4b23] | 220 | </para>
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| 221 |
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| 222 | <para>
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| 223 | <parameter>texhash</parameter> : this updates the file hash tables (otherwise
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| 224 | known as the file name database).
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| 225 | </para>
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[a9ee0599] | 226 |
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| 227 | </sect2>
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| 228 |
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| 229 | <sect2 role="content">
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| 230 | <title>Contents</title>
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| 231 |
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| 232 | <segmentedlist>
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| 233 | <segtitle>Installed Programs</segtitle>
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| 234 | <segtitle>Installed Library</segtitle>
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| 235 | <segtitle>Installed Directory</segtitle>
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| 236 |
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| 237 | <seglistitem>
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| 238 | <seg>biber</seg>
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| 239 | <seg>None</seg>
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| 240 | <seg>/usr/lib/site_perl/5.*/Biber</seg>
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| 241 | </seglistitem>
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| 242 | </segmentedlist>
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| 243 |
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| 244 | <variablelist>
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| 245 | <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
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| 246 | <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
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| 247 | <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
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| 248 |
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| 249 | <varlistentry id="biber-prog">
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[3e90bfe] | 250 | <term><command>biber</command></term>
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[a9ee0599] | 251 | <listitem>
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| 252 | <para>is used for producing bibliographies in LaTeX documents.</para>
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[3e90bfe] | 253 | <indexterm zone="biber biber-prog">
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[a9ee0599] | 254 | <primary sortas="b-biber">biber</primary>
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| 255 | </indexterm>
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| 256 | </listitem>
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| 257 | </varlistentry>
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| 258 |
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| 259 | </variablelist>
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| 260 |
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| 261 | </sect2>
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| 262 |
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| 263 | </sect1>
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