%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 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 ) Optional and to run the testsuite. Although the tarball name is unversioned, it will untar to a correctly-versioned biblatex-biber-&biber-version; directory. It is almost possible to install (all) missing dependencies automatically. Except, from perl-5.22.0 onwards, is no longer part of the core perl distribution. And for we have to patch it to skip over a test which always fails - that failing test will probably break the automatic install. To automatically install the remaining perl dependencies you will need to manually install those modules first. You can then run perl ./Build.PL and when it prompts you, become the root user and run ./Build installdeps If you use external modules with biber, a change in v2.4 (to \DeclareNameFormat) breaks at least some of them - if this applies to you, you will need to update the affected module from CPAN. User Notes: Install Biber by running the following commands: 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. Test 12 of t/sort-order.t 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 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