%general-entities; ]> Biber Biber is a BibTeX replacement for users of biblatex, written in Perl, with full Unicode support. &lfs121_checked; Package Information Download (HTTP): Download (FTP): Download MD5 sum: &biber-md5sum; Download size: &biber-size; Estimated disk space required: &biber-buildsize; Estimated build time: &biber-time; The biber 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: wget -c &biber-download-http; \ -O biber-&biber-version;.tar.gz. If you have updated to a new release of texlive-source, biber and its perl dependencies are still present in /usr and do not need to be rebuilt. However, biblatex installs in /opt/texlive/&texlive-year; and does need to be reinstalled. If you installed the above dependencies using the BLFS instructions for each of them, perl ./Build.PL 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. Required Additional Download Download (HTTP): Download MD5 sum: &biblatex-md5sum; Download size: &biblatex-size; Biber Dependencies Required Recommended (required for the test suite) and It is possible to install all missing dependencies automatically. You must first install using . Then run perl ./Build.PL and when it prompts you, become the &root; user and run ./Build installdeps - this will use CPAN and as noted above it will use Mozilla::CA instead of using system certificates. Install Biber by running the following commands: perl ./Build.PL && ./Build To test the results, enter: ./Build test Now, as the root user: ./Build install Installed Programs Installed Library Installed Directory biber None /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.*{,/<arch>-linux/auto}/Biber Short Descriptions biber is used for producing bibliographies in LaTeX documents biber