%general-entities; ]> $LastChangedBy$ $Date$ Biber Biber is a BibTeX replacement for users of biblatex, written in Perl, with full Unicode support. &lfs83_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. Required Additional Download 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 ) This version of biber requires at least perl-5.26.0. If you are using an older version of perl you may prefer to install v2.7 - for that see the BLFS-8.1 book. Optional and to run the testsuite It is possible to install all missing dependencies automatically. But from perl-5.22.0 onwards, is no longer part of the core perl distribution. To automatically install the remaining perl dependencies you can install that module first 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