[7cdb6a43] | 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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[92ada82] | 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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| 9 | <!ENTITY biber-md5sum "530368acb20b0881e13d7df0e5976e11">
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| 10 | <!ENTITY biber-size "1.1 MB">
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[ac38e9dc] | 11 | <!-- buildsize includes the installed biblatex -->
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[92ada82] | 12 | <!ENTITY biber-buildsize "32 MB">
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| 13 | <!ENTITY biber-time "less than 0.1 SBU (0.8 SBU to run the tests)">
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[ac38e9dc] | 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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[070fcd8] | 16 | <!ENTITY biblatex-download-ftp "">
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[92ada82] | 17 | <!ENTITY biblatex-md5sum "75321553c70697a213607b89f728e15d">
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[ac38e9dc] | 18 | <!ENTITY biblatex-size "19 MB">
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[070fcd8] | 19 |
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[7cdb6a43] | 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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[293e9cdc] | 40 | <application>Perl</application>, with full Unicode support.</para>
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[070fcd8] | 41 |
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[293e9cdc] | 42 | &lfs78_checked;
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[7cdb6a43] | 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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[070fcd8] | 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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[293e9cdc] | 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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[070fcd8] | 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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| 83 |
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[7cdb6a43] | 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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[293e9cdc] | 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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| 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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[92ada82] | 98 | <xref linkend="perl-class-accessor"/>
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[293e9cdc] | 99 | <xref linkend="perl-data-compare"/>
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| 100 | <xref linkend="perl-data-dump"/>
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[92ada82] | 101 | <xref linkend="perl-data-uniqid"/>
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[293e9cdc] | 102 | <xref linkend="perl-date-simple"/>
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| 103 | <xref linkend="perl-encode-eucjpascii"/>
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| 104 | <xref linkend="perl-encode-hanextra"/>
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| 105 | <xref linkend="perl-encode-jis2k"/>
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| 106 | <xref linkend="perl-file-slurp"/>
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| 107 | <!-- IPC::Cmd is a part of core perl -->
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| 108 | <xref linkend="perl-ipc-run3"/>
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| 109 | <!-- LWP::Simple is part of libwww-perl,
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| 110 | that is pulled in by LWP::Protocol::https -->
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| 111 | <xref linkend="perl-list-allutils"/>
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| 112 | <!-- List::MoreUtils was pulled in for the testsuite of List::AllUtils,
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| 113 | but it needs to be present even if people do not run the tests -->
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| 114 | <xref linkend="perl-list-moreutils"/>
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| 115 | <xref linkend="perl-log-log4perl"/>
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| 116 | <!-- I initially misread LWP-Protocol-https as part of libwww-perl
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| 117 | when I was preparing this list. In fact, it depends on that -->
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| 118 | <xref linkend="perl-lwp-protocol-https"/>
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| 119 | <!-- Module::Build is pulled in by perl-text-bibtex, but mention it explicitly
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| 120 | so that the note on automatically installing missing dependencies can be run -->
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| 121 | <xref linkend="perl-module-build"/>
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| 122 | <!-- Mozilla::CA is a dependency of LWP-Protocol-https -->
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| 123 | <xref linkend="perl-regexp-common"/>
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| 124 | <xref linkend="perl-text-bibtex"/>
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| 125 | <xref linkend="perl-text-roman"/>
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[ac38e9dc] | 126 | <!-- Collate.pm ships in perl, but is sometimes too old, and we like current
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| 127 | versions. Make the latest version required so that everyone is using the
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| 128 | same version. In fact, the version in perl-5.20.2 is indeed too old for
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| 129 | biber-2.0 -->
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[293e9cdc] | 130 | <xref linkend="perl-unicode-collate"/>
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| 131 | <!-- Unicode::GCstring is part of Unicode::LineBreak -->
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| 132 | <xref linkend="perl-unicode-linebreak"/>
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| 133 | <xref linkend="perl-unicode-normalize"/>
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| 134 | <xref linkend="perl-xml-libxml-simple"/>
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| 135 | <xref linkend="perl-xml-libxslt"/>
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[070fcd8] | 136 | <xref linkend="perl-xml-writer"/> and
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[ac38e9dc] | 137 | <!-- untarring biblatex requires that the texmf directories already exist -->
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[070fcd8] | 138 | <xref linkend="texlive"/>
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[293e9cdc] | 139 | (or <xref linkend="tl-installer"/>)
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[7cdb6a43] | 140 | </para>
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| 141 |
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[92ada82] | 142 | <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional</bridgehead>
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| 143 | <para role="optional">
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| 144 | <xref linkend="perl-file-which"/> and
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| 145 | <xref linkend="perl-test-differences"/> to run the testsuite.
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[7cdb6a43] | 146 | </para>
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| 147 |
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| 148 | <note>
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[cecac4d] | 149 | <!-- when a new release appears, use this para and link to sourceforge,
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[92ada82] | 150 | until we have a versioned copy at anduin. -->
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[293e9cdc] | 151 | <para>
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| 152 | Although the tarball name is unversioned, it will untar to a
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| 153 | correctly-versioned biblatex-biber-&biber-version; directory.
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[92ada82] | 154 | </para>
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[293e9cdc] | 155 |
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[7cdb6a43] | 156 | <para>
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[92ada82] | 157 | It is almost possible to install (all) missing dependencies automatically.
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[293e9cdc] | 158 | Except, from <application>perl-5.22.0</application> onwards,
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| 159 | <xref linkend="perl-module-build"/> is no longer part of
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[92ada82] | 160 | the core perl distribution. And for <xref linkend="perl-data-uniqid"/>
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| 161 | we have to patch it to skip over a test which always fails - that
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| 162 | failing test will probably break the automatic install. To
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| 163 | automatically install the remaining perl dependencies you will need
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| 164 | to manually install those modules first.
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[293e9cdc] | 165 | You can then run <command>perl ./Build.PL</command> and when it
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[7cdb6a43] | 166 | prompts you, become the root user and run
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| 167 | <command>./Build installdeps</command>
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| 168 | </para>
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[92ada82] | 169 | </note>
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| 170 |
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| 171 | <note> <!-- remove this when texlive-2016 is released. -->
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[293e9cdc] | 172 | <para>
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[92ada82] | 173 | If you use external modules with biber, a change in v2.4 (to
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| 174 | \DeclareNameFormat) breaks at least some of them - if this applies to
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| 175 | you, you will need to update the affected module from CPAN.
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| 176 | </para>
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[7cdb6a43] | 177 | </note>
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| 178 |
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| 179 | <para condition="html" role="usernotes">User Notes:
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| 180 | <ulink url='&blfs-wiki;/biber'/></para>
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| 181 |
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| 182 | </sect2>
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| 183 |
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| 184 | <sect2 role="installation">
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| 185 | <title>Installation of Biber</title>
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| 186 |
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| 187 | <para>Install <application>Biber</application> by running the following
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| 188 | commands:</para>
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| 189 |
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[ac38e9dc] | 190 | <screen><userinput>perl ./Build.PL &&
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| 191 | ./Build</userinput></screen>
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[7cdb6a43] | 192 |
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[293e9cdc] | 193 | <para>To test the results, enter: <command>./Build test</command> - you will
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[92ada82] | 194 | require the en_GB.UTF-8 and sv_SE.UTF-8 locales. Test 12 of t/sort-order.t
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| 195 | will fail : for
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[293e9cdc] | 196 | speed the tests use system locales instead of the default Unicode::Collation
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| 197 | algorithm, and some minor details of the locales in OSX (where development
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| 198 | takes place) differ from those in <application>glibc</application></para>
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[7cdb6a43] | 199 |
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| 200 | <para>Now, as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:</para>
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| 201 |
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[ac38e9dc] | 202 | <screen role="root"><userinput>tar -xf ../biblatex-&biblatex-version;.tds.tgz -C /opt/texlive/&texlive-year;/texmf-dist &&
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[070fcd8] | 203 | texhash &&
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| 204 | ./Build install</userinput></screen>
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| 205 |
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| 206 | </sect2>
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| 207 |
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| 208 | <sect2 role="commands">
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| 209 | <title>Command Explanations</title>
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| 210 |
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| 211 | <para>
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[293e9cdc] | 212 | <command>tar -xf biblatex-&biblatex-version;.tds.tar.gz -C
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| 213 | /opt/texlive/&texlive-year;/texmf-dist</command>:
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[ac38e9dc] | 214 | this installs the new <application>biblatex</application> files over those
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| 215 | installed by <application>texlive</application>.
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[070fcd8] | 216 | </para>
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| 217 |
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| 218 | <para>
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[293e9cdc] | 219 | <command>texhash</command> : this updates the file hash tables (otherwise
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[070fcd8] | 220 | known as the file name database).
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| 221 | </para>
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[7cdb6a43] | 222 |
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| 223 | </sect2>
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| 224 |
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| 225 | <sect2 role="content">
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| 226 | <title>Contents</title>
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| 227 |
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| 228 | <segmentedlist>
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| 229 | <segtitle>Installed Programs</segtitle>
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| 230 | <segtitle>Installed Library</segtitle>
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| 231 | <segtitle>Installed Directory</segtitle>
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| 232 |
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| 233 | <seglistitem>
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| 234 | <seg>biber</seg>
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| 235 | <seg>None</seg>
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[293e9cdc] | 236 | <seg>/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.*{,/<arch>-linux/auto}/Biber</seg>
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[7cdb6a43] | 237 | </seglistitem>
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| 238 | </segmentedlist>
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| 239 |
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| 240 | <variablelist>
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| 241 | <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
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| 242 | <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
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| 243 | <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
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| 244 |
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| 245 | <varlistentry id="biber-prog">
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| 246 | <term><command>biber</command></term>
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| 247 | <listitem>
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| 248 | <para>is used for producing bibliographies in LaTeX documents.</para>
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| 249 | <indexterm zone="biber biber-prog">
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| 250 | <primary sortas="b-biber">biber</primary>
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| 251 | </indexterm>
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| 252 | </listitem>
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| 253 | </varlistentry>
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| 254 |
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| 255 | </variablelist>
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| 256 |
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| 257 | </sect2>
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| 258 |
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| 259 | </sect1>
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