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1<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
2<!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN"
3 "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd" [
4 <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../../general.ent">
5 %general-entities;
6
7 <!ENTITY biber-download-http "&sources-anduin-http;/b/biblatex-biber-&biber-version;.tar.xz">
8 <!ENTITY biber-download-ftp "&sources-anduin-ftp;/b/biblatex-biber-&biber-version;.tar.xz">
9 <!ENTITY biber-md5sum "7bb4c983243d12f0791bcc123c11178d">
10 <!ENTITY biber-size "1.3 MB">
11 <!-- buildsize includes the installed biblatex -->
12 <!ENTITY biber-buildsize "38 MB">
13 <!ENTITY biber-time "less than 0.1 SBU (0.5 SBU to run the tests)">
14
15 <!ENTITY biblatex-download-http "http://sourceforge.net/projects/biblatex/files/biblatex-&biblatex-version;/biblatex-&biblatex-version;.tds.tgz">
16 <!ENTITY biblatex-download-ftp "">
17 <!ENTITY biblatex-md5sum "c6dad1c1f8a46785981610b5165d9fe5">
18 <!ENTITY biblatex-size "19 MB">
19
20]>
21
22<sect1 id="biber" xreflabel="biber-&biber-version;">
23 <?dbhtml filename="biber.html"?>
24
25 <sect1info>
26 <othername>$LastChangedBy$</othername>
27 <date>$Date$</date>
28 </sect1info>
29
30 <title>biblatex-biber-&biber-version;</title>
31
32 <indexterm zone="biber">
33 <primary sortas="a-biber">Biber</primary>
34 </indexterm>
35
36 <sect2 role="package">
37 <title>Introduction to biber</title>
38
39 <para>Biber is a BibTeX replacement for users of biblatex, written in
40 <application>Perl</application>. Upstream prefers to provide binaries
41 and no longer offers a source tarball, so that has been taken from the
42 tagged version in the git tree.</para>
43
44 &lfs77_checked; &gcc5_checked;
45
46 <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Package Information</bridgehead>
47 <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
48 <listitem>
49 <para>Download (HTTP): <ulink url="&biber-download-http;"/></para>
50 </listitem>
51 <listitem>
52 <para>Download (FTP): <ulink url="&biber-download-ftp;"/></para>
53 </listitem>
54 <listitem>
55 <para>Download MD5 sum: &biber-md5sum;</para>
56 </listitem>
57 <listitem>
58 <para>Download size: &biber-size;</para>
59 </listitem>
60 <listitem>
61 <para>Estimated disk space required: &biber-buildsize;</para>
62 </listitem>
63 <listitem>
64 <para>Estimated build time: &biber-time;</para>
65 </listitem>
66 </itemizedlist>
67
68 <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Required Additional Download</bridgehead>
69
70 <para>The corresponding version of <application>biblatex</application> is
71 a separate project - the tds version is pre-packaged for untarring into
72 the <filename class="directory">texmf-dist</filename> directory.</para>
73
74 <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
75 <listitem>
76 <para>Download (HTTP): <ulink url="&biblatex-download-http;"/></para>
77 </listitem>
78 <listitem>
79 <para>Download MD5 sum: &biblatex-md5sum;</para>
80 </listitem>
81 <listitem>
82 <para>Download size: &biblatex-size;</para>
83 </listitem>
84 </itemizedlist>
85
86 <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Biber Dependencies</bridgehead>
87
88 <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Required</bridgehead>
89 <para role="required">
90 <xref linkend="perl-autovivification"/>
91 <xref linkend="perl-business-isbn"/>
92 <xref linkend="perl-business-ismn"/>
93 <xref linkend="perl-business-issn"/>
94 <xref linkend="perl-data-compare"/>
95 <xref linkend="perl-data-dump"/>
96 <xref linkend="perl-date-simple"/>
97 <xref linkend="perl-encode-eucjpascii"/>
98 <xref linkend="perl-encode-hanextra"/>
99 <xref linkend="perl-encode-jis2k"/>
100 <xref linkend="perl-file-slurp"/>
101 <xref linkend="perl-ipc-run3"/>
102 <xref linkend="perl-log-log4perl"/>
103 <xref linkend="perl-lwp"/>
104 <xref linkend="perl-list-allutils"/>
105 <xref linkend="perl-regexp-common"/>
106 <xref linkend="perl-text-bibtex"/>
107 <xref linkend="perl-text-roman"/>
108 <!-- Collate.pm ships in perl, but is sometimes too old, and we like current
109 versions. Make the latest version required so that everyone is using the
110 same version. In fact, the version in perl-5.20.2 is indeed too old for
111 biber-2.0 -->
112 <xref linkend="perl-unicode-collate"/>
113 <xref linkend="perl-unicode-linebreak"/>
114 <xref linkend="perl-xml-libxml-simple"/>
115 <xref linkend="perl-xml-libxslt"/>
116 <xref linkend="perl-xml-writer"/> and
117 <!-- untarring biblatex requires that the texmf directories already exist -->
118 <xref linkend="texlive"/>
119 </para>
120
121 <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Recommended</bridgehead>
122 <para role="required">
123 <xref linkend="perl-file-which"/>,
124 <xref linkend="perl-test-differences"/>,
125 <xref linkend="perl-test-pod"/> and
126 <xref linkend="perl-test-pod-coverage"/> (all needed to run the testsuite)
127 </para>
128
129 <note>
130 <para>
131 It is possible to install (all) missing dependencies automatically.
132 Begin by running <command>perl ./Build.PL</command> and then when it
133 prompts you, become the root user and run
134 <command>./Build installdeps</command>
135 </para>
136 </note>
137
138 <para condition="html" role="usernotes">User Notes:
139 <ulink url='&blfs-wiki;/biber'/></para>
140
141 </sect2>
142
143 <sect2 role="installation">
144 <title>Installation of Biber</title>
145
146 <para>Install <application>Biber</application> by running the following
147 commands:</para>
148
149<screen><userinput>perl ./Build.PL &amp;&amp;
150./Build</userinput></screen>
151
152 <para>To test the results, enter: <command>./Build test</command></para>
153
154 <para>Now, as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:</para>
155
156<screen role="root"><userinput>tar -xf ../biblatex-&biblatex-version;a.tds.tgz -C /opt/texlive/&texlive-year;/texmf-dist &amp;&amp;
157texhash &amp;&amp;
158./Build install</userinput></screen>
159
160 </sect2>
161
162 <sect2 role="commands">
163 <title>Command Explanations</title>
164
165 <para>
166 <parameter>tar -xf biblatex-&biblatex-version;a.tds.tar.gz -C
167 /opt/texlive/&texlive-year;/texmf-dist</parameter>:
168 this installs the new <application>biblatex</application> files over those
169 installed by <application>texlive</application>.
170 </para>
171
172 <para>
173 <parameter>texhash</parameter> : this updates the file hash tables (otherwise
174 known as the file name database).
175 </para>
176
177 </sect2>
178
179 <sect2 role="content">
180 <title>Contents</title>
181
182 <segmentedlist>
183 <segtitle>Installed Programs</segtitle>
184 <segtitle>Installed Library</segtitle>
185 <segtitle>Installed Directory</segtitle>
186
187 <seglistitem>
188 <seg>biber</seg>
189 <seg>None</seg>
190 <seg>/usr/lib/site_perl/5.*/Biber</seg>
191 </seglistitem>
192 </segmentedlist>
193
194 <variablelist>
195 <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
196 <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
197 <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
198
199 <varlistentry id="biber-prog">
200 <term><command>biber</command></term>
201 <listitem>
202 <para>is used for producing bibliographies in LaTeX documents.</para>
203 <indexterm zone="biber biber-prog">
204 <primary sortas="b-biber">biber</primary>
205 </indexterm>
206 </listitem>
207 </varlistentry>
208
209 </variablelist>
210
211 </sect2>
212
213</sect1>
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