%general-entities; ]> $LastChangedBy$ $Date$ Biber Biber is a BibTeX replacement for users of biblatex, written in Perl, with full Unicode support. &lfs10_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 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 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; Required patch: 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 - this will use CPAN and as noted above it will use Mozilla::CA instead of using system certificates. User Notes: Install Biber by running the following commands: First apply a patch so that the testsuite will pass with the changes to hash formats in Unicode::Collates-1.29: patch -p1 -i ../biber-&biber-version;-test_fixes-1.patch 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