%general-entities; ]> $LastChangedBy$ $Date$ Biber Biber is a BibTeX replacement for users of biblatex, written in Perl, with full Unicode support. &lfs91_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; If you have updated to a new release of texlive-source, biber and its perl dependencies are still in present in /usr and do not need to be rebuilt. However, biblatex installs in /opt/texlive/&texlive-year; and does need to be reinstalled. This version of biber requires perl-5.30 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using the 8.4 version of BLFS you may wish to build the 2.13 version: see the 8.4 book noting that biblatex-3.13 has been replaced by biblatex-3.13a upstream. Required Additional Downloads The corresponding version of biblatex is a separate project - the tds tarball is pre-packaged for untarring into the texmf-dist directory. Download (HTTP): Download MD5 sum: &biblatex-md5sum; Download size: &biblatex-size; Biber Dependencies Required and (or , but for that you can use tlmgr update ) Recommended (required for the testsuite) 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 User Notes: Install Biber by running the following commands: perl ./Build.PL && ./Build To test the results, enter: ./Build test Now, as the root user: tar -xf ../biblatex-&biblatex-version;.tds.tgz -C /opt/texlive/&texlive-year;/texmf-dist && texhash && ./Build install tar -xf biblatex-&biblatex-version;.tds.tar.gz -C /opt/texlive/&texlive-year;/texmf-dist: this installs the new biblatex files over those installed by texlive. texhash : this updates the file hash tables (otherwise known as the file name database). 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