[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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[21007b1b] | 7 | <!ENTITY biber-download-http "https://github.com/plk/biber/archive/v&biber-version;.tar.gz">
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| 8 | <!ENTITY biber-download-ftp " ">
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[8eb6b8b] | 9 | <!ENTITY biber-md5sum "4956fbf23546b6325647b6c81b2b4bea">
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[21007b1b] | 10 | <!ENTITY biber-size "1.3 MB">
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[9385c0fe] | 11 | <!-- buildsize includes the installed biblatex -->
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[e95f793] | 12 | <!ENTITY biber-buildsize "36 MB">
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[21007b1b] | 13 | <!ENTITY biber-time "0.3 SBU including 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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[e95f793] | 17 | <!ENTITY biblatex-md5sum "0aa6937010eaaf2154e3ebd00a2fae77">
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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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[21007b1b] | 30 | <title>biber-&biber-version;</title>
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[a9ee0599] | 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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[0a88bd98] | 42 | &lfs81_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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[23d3b894] | 66 | <note>
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| 67 | <para>
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| 68 | The <application>biber</application> source tarball shown above
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| 69 | downloads with the correct name, biber-&biber-version;.tar.gz,
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| 70 | if using a browser such as Firefox. If you prefer to use a command line
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| 71 | program such as wget, you normally would obtain
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| 72 | v&biber-version;.tar.gz. To obtain this package with the proper
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| 73 | filename, run:
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| 74 |
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| 75 | <screen><userinput>wget -c &biber-download-http; \
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| 76 | -O biber-&biber-version;.tar.gz</userinput></screen>.
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| 77 | </para>
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| 78 | </note>
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[a0751bdc] | 79 |
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[23d3b894] | 80 | <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Required Additional Download</bridgehead>
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[a0751bdc] | 81 |
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| 82 | <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
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| 83 | <listitem>
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| 84 | <para>The corresponding version of <application>biblatex</application> is
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| 85 | a separate project - the tds tarball is pre-packaged for untarring into
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| 86 | the <filename class="directory">texmf-dist</filename> directory.
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| 87 | Download (HTTP): <ulink url="&biblatex-download-http;"/></para>
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| 88 | </listitem>
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| 89 | <listitem>
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| 90 | <para>Download MD5 sum: &biblatex-md5sum;</para>
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| 91 | </listitem>
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| 92 | <listitem>
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| 93 | <para>Download size: &biblatex-size;</para>
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| 94 | </listitem>
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| 95 | </itemizedlist>
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[c5a4b23] | 96 |
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[a9ee0599] | 97 | <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Biber Dependencies</bridgehead>
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| 98 |
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| 99 | <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Required</bridgehead>
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| 100 | <para role="required">
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[145cccdf] | 101 | <!-- KFM: because I always get confused by these deps, I've decided
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| 102 | to add some comments.
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| 103 | Both Config::AutoConf and ExtUtils::LibBuilder are listed as build
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| 104 | requirements in Build.PL, the rest are just requirements, but the
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| 105 | difference seems moot. Those two are needed to build Text::BibTeX
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| 106 | so not listed separately. -->
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[a9ee0599] | 107 | <xref linkend="perl-autovivification"/>
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| 108 | <xref linkend="perl-business-isbn"/>
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| 109 | <xref linkend="perl-business-ismn"/>
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| 110 | <xref linkend="perl-business-issn"/>
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[35b6a2e] | 111 | <xref linkend="perl-class-accessor"/>
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[a9ee0599] | 112 | <xref linkend="perl-data-compare"/>
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[1c80c2c] | 113 | <xref linkend="perl-data-dump"/>
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[35b6a2e] | 114 | <xref linkend="perl-data-uniqid"/>
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[42bb57d] | 115 | <xref linkend="perl-datetime-calendar-julian"/>
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| 116 | <xref linkend="perl-datetime-format-builder"/>
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[a9ee0599] | 117 | <xref linkend="perl-encode-eucjpascii"/>
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| 118 | <xref linkend="perl-encode-hanextra"/>
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| 119 | <xref linkend="perl-encode-jis2k"/>
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| 120 | <xref linkend="perl-file-slurp"/>
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[145cccdf] | 121 | <!-- IPC::Cmd is a part of core perl -->
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[a9ee0599] | 122 | <xref linkend="perl-ipc-run3"/>
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[a5cd6e1] | 123 | <xref linkend="perl-lingua-translit"/>
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[a9ee0599] | 124 | <xref linkend="perl-list-allutils"/>
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[145cccdf] | 125 | <!-- List::MoreUtils was pulled in for the testsuite of List::AllUtils,
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| 126 | but it needs to be present even if people do not run the tests -->
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| 127 | <xref linkend="perl-list-moreutils"/>
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[fc8b669] | 128 | <!-- List::MoreUtils::XS is listed as a dep, but it is part of
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| 129 | List::MoreUtils -->
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[145cccdf] | 130 | <xref linkend="perl-log-log4perl"/>
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| 131 | <!-- I initially misread LWP-Protocol-https as part of libwww-perl
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| 132 | when I was preparing this list. In fact, it depends on that -->
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| 133 | <xref linkend="perl-lwp-protocol-https"/>
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[a5cd6e1] | 134 | <!-- LWP::Simple is part of libwww-perl,
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| 135 | that is pulled in by LWP::Protocol::https -->
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[145cccdf] | 136 | <!-- Module::Build is pulled in by perl-text-bibtex, but mention it explicitly
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| 137 | so that the note on automatically installing missing dependencies can be run -->
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[10e632f] | 138 | <xref linkend="perl-module-build"/>
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[145cccdf] | 139 | <!-- Mozilla::CA is a dependency of LWP-Protocol-https -->
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[a9ee0599] | 140 | <xref linkend="perl-regexp-common"/>
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[42bb57d] | 141 | <xref linkend="perl-sort-key"/>
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[a9ee0599] | 142 | <xref linkend="perl-text-bibtex"/>
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[42bb57d] | 143 | <xref linkend="perl-text-csv"/>
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| 144 | <!-- Text-CSV_XS is a recommended dependency for Text-CSV -->
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[9385c0fe] | 145 | <xref linkend="perl-text-roman"/>
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[e95f793] | 146 | <!-- Unicode-Collate usually needs to be latest, core perl is older -->
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| 147 | <xref linkend="perl-unicode-collate"/>
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[145cccdf] | 148 | <!-- Unicode::GCstring is part of Unicode::LineBreak -->
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[a9ee0599] | 149 | <xref linkend="perl-unicode-linebreak"/>
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| 150 | <xref linkend="perl-xml-libxml-simple"/>
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[c5a4b23] | 151 | <xref linkend="perl-xml-libxslt"/>
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| 152 | <xref linkend="perl-xml-writer"/> and
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[9385c0fe] | 153 | <!-- untarring biblatex requires that the texmf directories already exist -->
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[c5a4b23] | 154 | <xref linkend="texlive"/>
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[544c41a] | 155 | (or <xref linkend="tl-installer"/>)
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[a9ee0599] | 156 | </para>
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| 157 |
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[21007b1b] | 158 | <note> <!-- FIXME remove this after our 8.0 release, so that it is noted
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| 159 | in at least one release of the book -->
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[42bb57d] | 160 | <para>This version of <application>biber</application> requires at least
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| 161 | <application>perl-5.24.0</application>. If you are using an older version
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| 162 | of <command>perl</command> you may prefer to install v2.5 - for that see
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| 163 | the BLFS-7.10 book (that source is now in
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| 164 | <filename class="directory">files/biblatex-biber/2.5/</filename> instead of
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| 165 | <filename class="directory">files/biblatex-biber/current/</filename>).</para>
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| 166 | </note>
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| 167 |
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[35b6a2e] | 168 | <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional</bridgehead>
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| 169 | <para role="optional">
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| 170 | <xref linkend="perl-file-which"/> and
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| 171 | <xref linkend="perl-test-differences"/> to run the testsuite
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[a9ee0599] | 172 | </para>
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| 173 |
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| 174 | <note>
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| 175 | <para>
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[42bb57d] | 176 | It is possible to install all missing dependencies automatically.
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| 177 | But from <application>perl-5.22.0</application> onwards,
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| 178 | <xref linkend="perl-module-build"/> is no longer part of the core perl
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| 179 | distribution. And for <xref linkend="perl-data-uniqid"/> we have to
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| 180 | patch it to skip over a test which always fails - that failing test may
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| 181 | break the automatic install. To automatically install the remaining perl
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| 182 | dependencies you can install those two modules first using <xref
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| 183 | linkend="perl-auto-install"/>. then run <command>perl ./Build.PL</command>
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| 184 | and when it prompts you, become the root user and run
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[a9ee0599] | 185 | <command>./Build installdeps</command>
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| 186 | </para>
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[35b6a2e] | 187 | </note>
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| 188 |
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[a9ee0599] | 189 | <para condition="html" role="usernotes">User Notes:
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[3e90bfe] | 190 | <ulink url='&blfs-wiki;/biber'/></para>
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[a9ee0599] | 191 |
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| 192 | </sect2>
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| 193 |
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| 194 | <sect2 role="installation">
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| 195 | <title>Installation of Biber</title>
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| 196 |
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| 197 | <para>Install <application>Biber</application> by running the following
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[7b2c94b] | 198 | commands:</para>
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[a9ee0599] | 199 |
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[a953d7d5] | 200 | <screen><userinput>perl ./Build.PL &&
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[0f304418] | 201 | ./Build</userinput></screen>
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[a9ee0599] | 202 |
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[42bb57d] | 203 | <para>To test the results, enter: <command>./Build test</command></para>
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[a9ee0599] | 204 |
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| 205 | <para>Now, as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:</para>
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| 206 |
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[59e61f7] | 207 | <screen role="root"><userinput>tar -xf ../biblatex-&biblatex-version;.tds.tgz -C /opt/texlive/&texlive-year;/texmf-dist &&
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[c5a4b23] | 208 | texhash &&
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| 209 | ./Build install</userinput></screen>
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| 210 |
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| 211 | </sect2>
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| 212 |
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| 213 | <sect2 role="commands">
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| 214 | <title>Command Explanations</title>
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[10e632f] | 215 |
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[c5a4b23] | 216 | <para>
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[0c54cea] | 217 | <command>tar -xf biblatex-&biblatex-version;.tds.tar.gz -C
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| 218 | /opt/texlive/&texlive-year;/texmf-dist</command>:
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[9385c0fe] | 219 | this installs the new <application>biblatex</application> files over those
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| 220 | installed by <application>texlive</application>.
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[c5a4b23] | 221 | </para>
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| 222 |
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| 223 | <para>
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[0c54cea] | 224 | <command>texhash</command> : this updates the file hash tables (otherwise
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[c5a4b23] | 225 | known as the file name database).
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| 226 | </para>
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[a9ee0599] | 227 |
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| 228 | </sect2>
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| 229 |
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| 230 | <sect2 role="content">
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| 231 | <title>Contents</title>
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| 232 |
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| 233 | <segmentedlist>
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| 234 | <segtitle>Installed Programs</segtitle>
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| 235 | <segtitle>Installed Library</segtitle>
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| 236 | <segtitle>Installed Directory</segtitle>
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| 237 |
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| 238 | <seglistitem>
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| 239 | <seg>biber</seg>
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| 240 | <seg>None</seg>
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[a953d7d5] | 241 | <seg>/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.*{,/<arch>-linux/auto}/Biber</seg>
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[a9ee0599] | 242 | </seglistitem>
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| 243 | </segmentedlist>
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| 244 |
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| 245 | <variablelist>
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| 246 | <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
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| 247 | <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
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| 248 | <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
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| 249 |
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| 250 | <varlistentry id="biber-prog">
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[3e90bfe] | 251 | <term><command>biber</command></term>
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[a9ee0599] | 252 | <listitem>
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| 253 | <para>is used for producing bibliographies in LaTeX documents.</para>
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[3e90bfe] | 254 | <indexterm zone="biber biber-prog">
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[a9ee0599] | 255 | <primary sortas="b-biber">biber</primary>
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| 256 | </indexterm>
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| 257 | </listitem>
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| 258 | </varlistentry>
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| 259 |
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| 260 | </variablelist>
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| 261 |
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| 262 | </sect2>
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| 263 |
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| 264 | </sect1>
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