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biber: point to anduin for http

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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 <!-- please keep the alternative http, with one of them commented, so that
8 a tarball can always be downloaded by a user even if anduin is not yet updated -->
9 <!ENTITY biber-download-http "&sources-anduin-http;/b/biblatex-biber-&biber-version;.tar.xz">
10 <!-- please edit this one to point to wherever you uploaded \-\->
11 <!ENTITY biber-download-http "http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/~ken/tmp/biblatex-biber-&biber-version;.tar.xz"> -->
12 <!ENTITY biber-download-ftp "&sources-anduin-ftp;/b/biblatex-biber-&biber-version;.tar.xz">
13 <!ENTITY biber-md5sum "bf5191099887a652105ee9bf08bcf958">
14 <!ENTITY biber-size "1.4 MB">
15 <!-- buildsize includes the installed biblatex -->
16 <!ENTITY biber-buildsize "40 MB">
17 <!ENTITY biber-time "less than 0.1 SBU (0.5 SBU to run the tests)">
18
19 <!ENTITY biblatex-download-http "http://sourceforge.net/projects/biblatex/files/biblatex-&biblatex-version;/biblatex-&biblatex-version;.tds.tgz">
20 <!ENTITY biblatex-download-ftp "">
21 <!ENTITY biblatex-md5sum "c6dad1c1f8a46785981610b5165d9fe5">
22 <!ENTITY biblatex-size "19 MB">
23
24]>
25
26<sect1 id="biber" xreflabel="biber-&biber-version;">
27 <?dbhtml filename="biber.html"?>
28
29 <sect1info>
30 <othername>$LastChangedBy$</othername>
31 <date>$Date$</date>
32 </sect1info>
33
34 <title>biblatex-biber-&biber-version;</title>
35
36 <indexterm zone="biber">
37 <primary sortas="a-biber">Biber</primary>
38 </indexterm>
39
40 <sect2 role="package">
41 <title>Introduction to biber</title>
42
43 <para>Biber is a BibTeX replacement for users of biblatex, written in
44 <application>Perl</application>. Upstream prefers to provide binaries
45 and no longer offers a source tarball, so that has been taken from the
46 git tree : see the file <filename>Fixes-from-git</filename> to see
47 which changes (since 2.1 was tagged) have been included.</para>
48
49 &gcc5_checked;
50
51 <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Package Information</bridgehead>
52 <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
53 <listitem>
54 <para>Download (HTTP): <ulink url="&biber-download-http;"/></para>
55 </listitem>
56 <listitem>
57 <para>Download (FTP): <ulink url="&biber-download-ftp;"/></para>
58 </listitem>
59 <listitem>
60 <para>Download MD5 sum: &biber-md5sum;</para>
61 </listitem>
62 <listitem>
63 <para>Download size: &biber-size;</para>
64 </listitem>
65 <listitem>
66 <para>Estimated disk space required: &biber-buildsize;</para>
67 </listitem>
68 <listitem>
69 <para>Estimated build time: &biber-time;</para>
70 </listitem>
71 </itemizedlist>
72
73 <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Required Additional Download</bridgehead>
74
75 <para>The corresponding version of <application>biblatex</application> is
76 a separate project - the tds version is pre-packaged for untarring into
77 the <filename class="directory">texmf-dist</filename> directory.</para>
78
79 <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
80 <listitem>
81 <para>Download (HTTP): <ulink url="&biblatex-download-http;"/></para>
82 </listitem>
83 <listitem>
84 <para>Download MD5 sum: &biblatex-md5sum;</para>
85 </listitem>
86 <listitem>
87 <para>Download size: &biblatex-size;</para>
88 </listitem>
89 </itemizedlist>
90
91 <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Biber Dependencies</bridgehead>
92
93 <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Required</bridgehead>
94 <para role="required">
95 <xref linkend="perl-autovivification"/>
96 <xref linkend="perl-business-isbn"/>
97 <xref linkend="perl-business-ismn"/>
98 <xref linkend="perl-business-issn"/>
99 <xref linkend="perl-data-compare"/>
100 <xref linkend="perl-data-dump"/>
101 <xref linkend="perl-date-simple"/>
102 <xref linkend="perl-encode-eucjpascii"/>
103 <xref linkend="perl-encode-hanextra"/>
104 <xref linkend="perl-encode-jis2k"/>
105 <xref linkend="perl-file-slurp"/>
106 <xref linkend="perl-ipc-run3"/>
107 <xref linkend="perl-log-log4perl"/>
108 <xref linkend="perl-lwp"/>
109 <xref linkend="perl-list-allutils"/>
110 <xref linkend="perl-regexp-common"/>
111 <xref linkend="perl-text-bibtex"/>
112 <xref linkend="perl-text-roman"/>
113 <!-- Collate.pm ships in perl, but is sometimes too old, and we like current
114 versions. Make the latest version required so that everyone is using the
115 same version. In fact, the version in perl-5.20.2 is indeed too old for
116 biber-2.0 -->
117 <xref linkend="perl-unicode-collate"/>
118 <xref linkend="perl-unicode-linebreak"/>
119 <xref linkend="perl-xml-libxml-simple"/>
120 <xref linkend="perl-xml-libxslt"/>
121 <xref linkend="perl-xml-writer"/> and
122 <!-- untarring biblatex requires that the texmf directories already exist -->
123 <xref linkend="texlive"/>
124 </para>
125
126 <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Recommended</bridgehead>
127 <para role="required">
128 <xref linkend="perl-file-which"/>,
129 <xref linkend="perl-test-differences"/>,
130 <xref linkend="perl-test-pod"/> and
131 <xref linkend="perl-test-pod-coverage"/> (all needed to run the testsuite)
132 </para>
133
134 <note>
135 <para>
136 It is possible to install (all) missing dependencies automatically.
137 Begin by running <command>perl ./Build.PL</command> and then when it
138 prompts you, become the root user and run
139 <command>./Build installdeps</command>
140 </para>
141 </note>
142
143 <para condition="html" role="usernotes">User Notes:
144 <ulink url='&blfs-wiki;/biber'/></para>
145
146 </sect2>
147
148 <sect2 role="installation">
149 <title>Installation of Biber</title>
150
151 <para>Install <application>Biber</application> by running the following
152 commands:</para>
153
154<screen><userinput>perl ./Build.PL &amp;&amp;
155./Build</userinput></screen>
156
157 <para>To test the results, enter: <command>./Build test</command></para>
158
159 <para>Now, as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:</para>
160
161<screen role="root"><userinput>tar -xf ../biblatex-&biblatex-version;.tds.tgz -C /opt/texlive/&texlive-year;/texmf-dist &amp;&amp;
162texhash &amp;&amp;
163./Build install</userinput></screen>
164
165 </sect2>
166
167 <sect2 role="commands">
168 <title>Command Explanations</title>
169
170 <para>
171 <parameter>tar -xf biblatex-&biblatex-version;a.tds.tar.gz -C
172 /opt/texlive/&texlive-year;/texmf-dist</parameter>:
173 this installs the new <application>biblatex</application> files over those
174 installed by <application>texlive</application>.
175 </para>
176
177 <para>
178 <parameter>texhash</parameter> : this updates the file hash tables (otherwise
179 known as the file name database).
180 </para>
181
182 </sect2>
183
184 <sect2 role="content">
185 <title>Contents</title>
186
187 <segmentedlist>
188 <segtitle>Installed Programs</segtitle>
189 <segtitle>Installed Library</segtitle>
190 <segtitle>Installed Directory</segtitle>
191
192 <seglistitem>
193 <seg>biber</seg>
194 <seg>None</seg>
195 <seg>/usr/lib/site_perl/5.*/Biber</seg>
196 </seglistitem>
197 </segmentedlist>
198
199 <variablelist>
200 <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
201 <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
202 <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
203
204 <varlistentry id="biber-prog">
205 <term><command>biber</command></term>
206 <listitem>
207 <para>is used for producing bibliographies in LaTeX documents.</para>
208 <indexterm zone="biber biber-prog">
209 <primary sortas="b-biber">biber</primary>
210 </indexterm>
211 </listitem>
212 </varlistentry>
213
214 </variablelist>
215
216 </sect2>
217
218</sect1>
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