%general-entities; ]> $LastChangedBy$ $Date$ Biber Biber is a BibTeX replacement for users of biblatex, written in Perl, with full Unicode support. &lfs7a_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 two modules first. You can 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 - 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