%general-entities; ]> $LastChangedBy$ $Date$ Biber Biber is a BibTeX replacement for users of biblatex, written in Perl. Unusually, the tarball itself is called just biblatex-biber.tar.gz but it will extract to a versioned directory. Please ensure you download it from the correct versioned directory at sourceforge, the 1.9 version is broken as-shipped. &lfs76_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; Biber Dependencies Required (only if your version of perl is less than 5.20.0) and Recommended , and (to run the testsuite) Required (at runtime) It is possible to install (all) missing dependencies automatically. Begin by running perl ./Build.PL and then 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.PL To test the results, enter: ./Build test Now, as the root user: ./Build install 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