1 | <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
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2 | <!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN"
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3 | "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd" [
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4 | <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../../general.ent">
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5 | %general-entities;
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6 |
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7 | <!--
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8 | When a proper url is not evident, github will download with
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9 | https://github.com/ <path> /archive/<version>/<name>-<version>.tar.<compression>
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10 |
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11 | <!ENTITY biber-download-http "https://github.com/plk/biber/archive/v&biber-version;.tar.gz">
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12 | -->
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13 | <!ENTITY biber-download-http "https://github.com/plk/biber/archive/v&biber-version;/biber-&biber-version;.tar.gz">
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14 | <!ENTITY biber-download-ftp " ">
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15 | <!ENTITY biber-md5sum "a54f414f3ca2d6c9bf882bd9cf040480">
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16 | <!ENTITY biber-size "1.6 MB">
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17 | <!-- Buildsize includes the installed biblatex, except that what matters is
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18 | the difference from the files shipped by texlive, so usually the addition is
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19 | minimal. Copy full texmf to somewhere for working, measure with du -shm,
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20 | then install biblatex over the top of it and remeasure.
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21 | For 3.16, texmf grows by 3MB -->
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22 | <!ENTITY biber-buildsize "18 MB"> <!-- 14+1.6 rounds to 15M, add 2M for biblatex in texmf-->
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23 | <!ENTITY biber-time "0.5 SBU including tests">
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24 |
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25 | <!-- Check path. Directory might not be &biblatex-version; if a suffixed update -->
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26 | <!-- for normal unsuffixed version: e.g. for 3.15a
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27 | <!ENTITY biblatex-download-http "https://sourceforge.net/projects/biblatex/files/biblatex-3.15/biblatex-&biblatex-version;.tds.tgz"> -->
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28 | <!ENTITY biblatex-download-http "https://sourceforge.net/projects/biblatex/files/biblatex-&biblatex-version;/biblatex-&biblatex-version;.tds.tgz">
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29 | <!ENTITY biblatex-download-ftp "">
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30 | <!ENTITY biblatex-md5sum "54ab3e8d67ca34cd2822d75602c34254">
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31 | <!ENTITY biblatex-size "20 MB">
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32 |
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33 | ]>
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34 |
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35 | <sect1 id="biber" xreflabel="biber-&biber-version;">
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36 | <?dbhtml filename="biber.html"?>
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37 |
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38 | <sect1info>
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39 | <date>$Date$</date>
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40 | </sect1info>
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41 |
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42 | <title>biber-&biber-version;</title>
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43 |
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44 | <indexterm zone="biber">
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45 | <primary sortas="a-biber">Biber</primary>
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46 | </indexterm>
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47 |
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48 | <sect2 role="package">
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49 | <title>Introduction to biber</title>
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50 |
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51 | <para>
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52 | Biber is a BibTeX replacement for users of biblatex, written in
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53 | <application>Perl</application>, with full Unicode support.
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54 | </para>
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55 |
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56 | &lfs111_checked;
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57 |
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58 | <!-- note for editors: you can test this by using the latest version
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59 | of the latex-test tarball from
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60 | https://www.linuxfromscratch.org/~ken/tex-testfiles/
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61 | using ./configure (to create the Makefile) and then making the
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62 | following targets:
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63 | biblatex-unibiber and biblatex-biber (these just use pdflatex
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64 | and biber, biblatex-unibiber is more important, it uses UTF-8)
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65 | bibxelatex (uses xelatex and biber, needs TTF or OTF fonts and
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66 | in particular coverage of simplified Chinese and Japanese, and
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67 | optionally Korean - installed fonts for CJK can be specified to
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68 | configure if they are not found)
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69 | remote1 and remote2 (pdflatex and biber, for use with manually
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70 | installed perl modules, i.e. without Mozilla::CA, to prove that
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71 | remote references work).
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72 | In all cases the output PDF should include references at the
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73 | end, the Makefile does not check that for the remote tests. -->
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74 |
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75 | <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Package Information</bridgehead>
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76 | <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
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77 | <listitem>
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78 | <para>
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79 | Download (HTTP): <ulink url="&biber-download-http;"/>
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80 | </para>
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81 | </listitem>
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82 | <listitem>
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83 | <para>
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84 | Download (FTP): <ulink url="&biber-download-ftp;"/>
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85 | </para>
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86 | </listitem>
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87 | <listitem>
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88 | <para>
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89 | Download MD5 sum: &biber-md5sum;
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90 | </para>
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91 | </listitem>
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92 | <listitem>
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93 | <para>
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94 | Download size: &biber-size;
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95 | </para>
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96 | </listitem>
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97 | <listitem>
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98 | <para>
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99 | Estimated disk space required: &biber-buildsize;
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100 | </para>
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101 | </listitem>
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102 | <listitem>
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103 | <para>
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104 | Estimated build time: &biber-time;
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105 | </para>
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106 | </listitem>
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107 | </itemizedlist>
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108 |
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109 | <note>
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110 | <!--
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111 | <para>
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112 | The <application>biber</application> source tarball shown above
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113 | downloads with the correct name, biber-&biber-version;.tar.gz,
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114 | if using a browser such as Firefox. If you prefer to use a command line
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115 | program such as wget, you normally would obtain
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116 | v&biber-version;.tar.gz. To obtain this package with the proper
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117 | filename, run:
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118 |
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119 | <screen><userinput>wget -c &biber-download-http; \
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120 | -O biber-&biber-version;.tar.gz</userinput></screen>.
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121 | </para>
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122 | -->
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123 | <para>
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124 | If you have updated to a new release of texlive-source, biber and its
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125 | perl dependencies are still present in <filename
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126 | class="directory">/usr</filename> and do not need to be rebuilt.
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127 | However, biblatex installs in <filename
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128 | class="directory">/opt/texlive/&texlive-year;</filename> and does
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129 | need to be reinstalled.
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130 | </para>
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131 |
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132 | <para>
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133 | If you installed the above dependencies using the BLFS instructions
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134 | for each of them, <command>perl ./Build.PL</command> will complain
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135 | that Mozilla::CA is not installed, but that is not needed unless
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136 | CPAN was used to install the modules. BLFS patches LWP::Protocol::https
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137 | to use the system certificates, Mozilla::CA uses old certificates.
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138 | </para>
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139 |
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140 | <!-- <para> ##commented as a reminder that sooner or later it will need a
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141 | newer version than our current or last but one release ##
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142 | This version of biber requires <application>perl-5.30</application>
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143 | or later. If you are still using the 8.4 version of BLFS you may
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144 | wish to build the 2.13 version: see the 8.4 book noting that
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145 | biblatex-3.13 has been replaced by biblatex-3.13a upstream.
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146 | </para>-->
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147 | </note>
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148 |
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149 | <!-- TexLive 2022 already ships biblatex-3.17. Uncomment if a newer
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150 | biber requires a newer biblatex. -->
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151 |
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152 | <!--
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153 | <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Required Additional Download</bridgehead>
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154 |
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155 | <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
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156 | <listitem>
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157 | <para>
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158 | The corresponding version of <application>biblatex</application> is
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159 | a separate project - the tds tarball is pre-packaged for untarring
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160 | into the <filename class="directory">texmf-dist</filename>
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161 | directory. Download (HTTP): <ulink url="&biblatex-download-http;"/>
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162 | </para>
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163 | </listitem>
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164 | <listitem>
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165 | <para>
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166 | Download MD5 sum: &biblatex-md5sum;
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167 | </para>
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168 | </listitem>
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169 | <listitem>
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170 | <para>
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171 | Download size: &biblatex-size;
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172 | </para>
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173 | </listitem>
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174 | </itemizedlist>
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175 | -->
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176 | <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Biber Dependencies</bridgehead>
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177 |
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178 | <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Required</bridgehead>
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179 | <para role="required">
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180 | <!-- KFM: the order listed in Build.PL is not alphabetical -->
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181 | <xref linkend="perl-autovivification"/>
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182 | <xref linkend="perl-business-isbn"/>
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183 | <xref linkend="perl-business-ismn"/>
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184 | <xref linkend="perl-business-issn"/>
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185 | <xref linkend="perl-class-accessor"/>
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186 | <xref linkend="perl-data-compare"/>
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187 | <xref linkend="perl-data-dump"/>
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188 | <xref linkend="perl-data-uniqid"/>
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189 | <xref linkend="perl-datetime-calendar-julian"/>
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190 | <xref linkend="perl-datetime-format-builder"/>
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191 | <xref linkend="perl-encode-eucjpascii"/>
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192 | <xref linkend="perl-encode-hanextra"/>
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193 | <xref linkend="perl-encode-jis2k"/>
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194 | <xref linkend="perl-file-slurper"/>
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195 | <xref linkend="perl-io-string"/>
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196 | <!-- IPC::Cmd is a part of core perl -->
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197 | <xref linkend="perl-ipc-run3"/>
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198 | <xref linkend="perl-lingua-translit"/>
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199 | <xref linkend="perl-list-allutils"/>
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200 | <xref linkend="perl-list-moreutils"/>
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201 | <!-- perl-list-moreutils-xs is a dep of perl-list-moreutils -->
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202 | <xref linkend="perl-log-log4perl"/>
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203 | <xref linkend="perl-lwp-protocol-https"/>
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204 | <!-- LWP::Simple is part of perl-libwww-perl,
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205 | that is pulled in by perl-lwp-protocol-https
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206 | and that pulls in perl-uri -->
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207 | <xref linkend="perl-module-build"/>
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208 | <xref linkend="perl-parse-recdescent"/>
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209 | <xref linkend="perl-perlio-utf8_strict"/>
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210 | <!-- Mozilla::CA should not be needed when using system certificates -->
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211 | <xref linkend="perl-regexp-common"/>
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212 | <xref linkend="perl-sort-key"/>
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213 | <xref linkend="perl-text-bibtex"/>
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214 | <xref linkend="perl-text-csv"/>
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215 | <!-- perl-text-csv_xs is a recommended dependency for perl-text-csv -->
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216 | <xref linkend="perl-text-roman"/>
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217 | <!-- Unicode-Collate usually needs to be latest when biber is released,
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218 | core perl is usually older. To read the core version, look at
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219 | /usr/lib/perl5/5.xx.y/x86_64-linux-thread-multi/Unicode/Collate.pm -->
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220 | <xref linkend="perl-unicode-collate"/>
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221 | <!-- Unicode::GCstring is part of Unicode::LineBreak -->
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222 | <xref linkend="perl-unicode-linebreak"/>
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223 | <!-- Unicode::Normalize is part of core perl, found in
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224 | /usr/lib/perl5/5.xx.y/x86_64-linux-thread-multi/Unicode/Normalize.pm -->
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225 | <!-- perl-xml-libxml is a dependency of perl-xml-libxml-simple -->
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226 | <xref linkend="perl-xml-libxml-simple"/>
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227 | <xref linkend="perl-xml-libxslt"/>
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228 | <xref linkend="perl-xml-writer"/> and
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229 | <!-- untarring biblatex requires that the texmf directories already exist -->
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230 | <!--
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231 | <xref linkend="texlive"/>
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232 | (or <xref linkend="tl-installer"/>, but for that you can use
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233 | <command>tlmgr update</command>)
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234 | -->
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235 | </para>
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236 |
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237 | <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Recommended (required for the testsuite)</bridgehead>
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238 | <para role="recommended">
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239 | <xref linkend="perl-file-which"/> and
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240 | <xref linkend="perl-test-differences"/>
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241 | </para>
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242 |
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243 | <note>
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244 | <para>
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245 | It is possible to install all missing dependencies automatically. You
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246 | must first install <xref linkend="perl-module-build"/> using <xref
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247 | linkend="perl-auto-install"/>. Then run <command>perl
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248 | ./Build.PL</command> and when it prompts you, become the root user
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249 | and run <command>./Build installdeps</command> - this will use CPAN
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250 | and as noted above it will use Mozilla::CA instead of using system
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251 | certificates.
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252 | </para>
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253 | </note>
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254 |
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255 | <para condition="html" role="usernotes">User Notes:
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256 | <ulink url='&blfs-wiki;/biber'/></para>
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257 |
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258 | </sect2>
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259 |
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260 | <sect2 role="installation">
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261 | <title>Installation of Biber</title>
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262 |
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263 | <para>
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264 | Install <application>Biber</application> by running the following
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265 | commands:
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266 | </para>
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267 |
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268 | <!--<para>
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269 | First apply a patch so that the testsuite will pass with
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270 | the changes to hash formats in Unicode::Collates-1.29:
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271 | </para>
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272 |
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273 | <screen><userinput remap="pre">patch -p1 -i ../biber-&biber-version;-test_fixes-1.patch</userinput></screen>-->
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274 |
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275 | <screen><userinput>perl ./Build.PL &&
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276 | ./Build</userinput></screen>
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277 |
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278 | <para>
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279 | To test the results, enter: <command>./Build test</command>
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280 | </para>
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281 |
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282 | <para>
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283 | Now, as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:
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284 | </para>
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285 | <!--
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286 | <screen role="root"><userinput>tar -xf ../biblatex-&biblatex-version;.tds.tgz -C /opt/texlive/&texlive-year;/texmf-dist &&
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287 | texhash &&
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288 | -->
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289 | <screen role="root"><userinput>./Build install</userinput></screen>
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290 |
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291 | </sect2>
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292 | <!--
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293 | <sect2 role="commands">
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294 | <title>Command Explanations</title>
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295 |
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296 | <para>
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297 | <command>tar -xf biblatex-&biblatex-version;.tds.tar.gz -C
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298 | /opt/texlive/&texlive-year;/texmf-dist</command>:
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299 | this installs the new <application>biblatex</application> files over those
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300 | installed by <application>texlive</application>.
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301 | </para>
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302 |
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303 | <para>
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304 | <command>texhash</command> : this updates the file hash tables (otherwise
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305 | known as the file name database).
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306 | </para>
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307 |
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308 | </sect2>
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309 | -->
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310 | <sect2 role="content">
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311 | <title>Contents</title>
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312 |
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313 | <segmentedlist>
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314 | <segtitle>Installed Programs</segtitle>
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315 | <segtitle>Installed Library</segtitle>
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316 | <segtitle>Installed Directory</segtitle>
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317 |
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318 | <seglistitem>
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319 | <seg>biber</seg>
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320 | <seg>None</seg>
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321 | <seg>/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.*{,/<arch>-linux/auto}/Biber</seg>
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322 | </seglistitem>
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323 | </segmentedlist>
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324 |
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325 | <variablelist>
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326 | <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
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327 | <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
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328 | <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
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329 |
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330 | <varlistentry id="biber-prog">
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331 | <term><command>biber</command></term>
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332 | <listitem>
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333 | <para>
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334 | is used for producing bibliographies in LaTeX documents
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335 | </para>
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336 | <indexterm zone="biber biber-prog">
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337 | <primary sortas="b-biber">biber</primary>
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338 | </indexterm>
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339 | </listitem>
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340 | </varlistentry>
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341 |
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342 | </variablelist>
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343 |
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344 | </sect2>
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345 |
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346 | </sect1>
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