%general-entities; ]> $LastChangedBy$ $Date$ Biber Biber is a BibTeX replacement for users of biblatex, written in Perl, with full Unicode support. &lfs78_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; Required Additional Downloads Biber Dependencies Required and Recommended , , and (all needed to run the testsuite) Although the tarball name is unversioned, it will untar to a correctly-versioned biblatex-biber-&biber-version; directory. It is possible to install (all) missing dependencies automatically. Except, from perl-5.22.0 onwards, is no longer part of the core distribution. To automatically install the remaining perl dependencies you will need to manually install that first. You can then run perl ./Build.PL and when it prompts you, become the root user and run ./Build installdeps If you run ./Build.PL under versions of perl after 5.20.2 it will tell you that the version of Unicode::Normalize is too new. In fact, the new version works, but is now pure perl and takes longer to run : much longer if you have a large bibliography. You can find the old version at and use the standard to install it if you wish. Further details are in the User Notes. User Notes: Install Biber by running the following commands: sed -i 's/ 44/ 43/' t/bcfvalidation.t && perl ./Build.PL && ./Build To test the results, enter: ./Build test - you will require the en_GB.UTF-8 and sv_SE.UTF-8 locales. One test will fail : for speed the tests use system locales instead of the default Unicode::Collation algorithm, and some minor details of the locales in OSX (where development takes place) differ from those in glibc Now, as the root user: tar -xf ../biblatex-&biblatex-version;.tds.tgz -C /opt/texlive/&texlive-year;/texmf-dist && texhash && ./Build install sed -i 's/ 44/ 43/' t/bcfvalidation.t: Although the git master branch has 44 pairs of files for this test, the shipped tarball only contains 43. The sed prevents it reporting a failure. 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/site_perl/5.*/Biber Short Descriptions biber is used for producing bibliographies in LaTeX documents. biber