source: pst/typesetting/biber.xml@ e5343b46

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<!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN"
   "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd" [
  <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../../general.ent">
  %general-entities;

<!--
  When a proper url is not evident, github will download with 
  https://github.com/ <path> /archive/<version>/<name>-<version>.tar.<compression>

  <!ENTITY biber-download-http "https://github.com/plk/biber/archive/v&biber-version;.tar.gz">
-->
  <!ENTITY biber-download-http "https://github.com/plk/biber/archive/v&biber-version;/biber-&biber-version;.tar.gz">
  <!ENTITY biber-download-ftp  " ">
  <!ENTITY biber-md5sum        "726e7457f1b4d882e1d05fd185563cfd">
  <!ENTITY biber-size          "1.6 MB">
  <!-- Buildsize includes the installed biblatex, except that what matters is
    the difference from the files shipped by texlive, so usually the addition is
    minimal. Copy full texmf to somewhere for working, measure with du -shm,
    then install bibleatex over the top of it and remeasure. -->
  <!ENTITY biber-buildsize     "16 MB">
  <!ENTITY biber-time          "0.6 SBU including tests">

  <!-- Check path.  Directory might not be &biblatex-version; if a suffixed update -->
  <!ENTITY biblatex-download-http   "http://sourceforge.net/projects/biblatex/files/biblatex-&biblatex-version;/biblatex-&biblatex-version;.tds.tgz">
  <!ENTITY biblatex-download-ftp    "">
  <!ENTITY biblatex-md5sum          "fc3605bc86de283e6f962f20a80c5a04">
  <!ENTITY biblatex-size            "20 MB">

]>

<sect1 id="biber" xreflabel="biber-&biber-version;">
  <?dbhtml filename="biber.html"?>

  <sect1info>
    <othername>$LastChangedBy$</othername>
    <date>$Date$</date>
  </sect1info>

  <title>biber-&biber-version;</title>

  <indexterm zone="biber">
    <primary sortas="a-biber">Biber</primary>
  </indexterm>

  <sect2 role="package">
    <title>Introduction to biber</title>

    <para>Biber is a BibTeX replacement for users of biblatex, written in
    <application>Perl</application>, with full Unicode support.</para>

    &lfs91_checked;

    <!-- note for editors: you can test this by using the latest version
         of the latex-test tarball from
         http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/~ken/tex-testfiles/
         using ./configure (to create the Makefile) and then making the
         following targets:
         biblatex-unibiber and biblatex-biber (these just use pdflatex
         and biber, biblatex-unibiber is more important, it uses UTF-8)
         bibxelatex (uses xelatex and biber, needs TTF or OTF fonts and
         in particular coverage of simplified Chinese and Japanese, and
         optionally Korean - installed fonts for CJK can be specified to
         configure if they are not found)
         remote1 and remote2 (pdflatex and biber, for use with manually
         installed perl modules, i.e. without Mozilla::CA, to prove that
         remote references work).
         In all cases the output PDF should include references at the
         end, the Makefile does not check that for the remote tests. -->

    <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Package Information</bridgehead>
    <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
      <listitem>
        <para>Download (HTTP): <ulink url="&biber-download-http;"/></para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>Download (FTP): <ulink url="&biber-download-ftp;"/></para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>Download MD5 sum: &biber-md5sum;</para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>Download size: &biber-size;</para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>Estimated disk space required: &biber-buildsize;</para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>Estimated build time: &biber-time;</para>
      </listitem>
    </itemizedlist>

    <note>
<!--
      <para>
        The <application>biber</application> source tarball shown above
        downloads with the correct name, biber-&biber-version;.tar.gz,
        if using a browser such as Firefox. If you prefer to use a command line
        program such as wget, you normally would obtain
        v&biber-version;.tar.gz. To obtain this package with the proper
        filename, run:

<screen><userinput>wget -c &biber-download-http; \
     -O biber-&biber-version;.tar.gz</userinput></screen>.
      </para>
-->
      <para>
       If you have updated to a new release of texlive-source, biber and its
       perl dependencies are still in present in <filename
       class="directory">/usr</filename> and do not need to be rebuilt. However,
       biblatex installs in <filename
       class="directory">/opt/texlive/&texlive-year;</filename> and does need to
       be reinstalled.
      </para>

      <para>
      This version of biber requires <application>perl-5.30</application> or later.
      If you are still using the 8.4 version of BLFS you may wish to build the
      2.13 version: see the 8.4 book noting that biblatex-3.13 has been replaced by
      biblatex-3.13a upstream.
      </para>
    </note>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Required Additional Downloads</bridgehead>

    <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
      <listitem>
      <para>The corresponding version of <application>biblatex</application> is
      a separate project - the tds tarball is pre-packaged for untarring into
      the <filename class="directory">texmf-dist</filename> directory.
      Download (HTTP): <ulink url="&biblatex-download-http;"/></para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>Download MD5 sum: &biblatex-md5sum;</para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>Download size: &biblatex-size;</para>
      </listitem>
    </itemizedlist>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Biber Dependencies</bridgehead>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Required</bridgehead>
    <para role="required">
      <!-- KFM: the order listed in Build.PL is not alphabetical -->
      <xref linkend="perl-autovivification"/>
      <xref linkend="perl-business-isbn"/>
      <xref linkend="perl-business-ismn"/>
      <xref linkend="perl-business-issn"/>
      <xref linkend="perl-class-accessor"/>
      <xref linkend="perl-data-compare"/>
      <xref linkend="perl-data-dump"/>
      <xref linkend="perl-data-uniqid"/>
      <xref linkend="perl-datetime-calendar-julian"/>
      <xref linkend="perl-datetime-format-builder"/>
      <xref linkend="perl-encode-eucjpascii"/>
      <xref linkend="perl-encode-hanextra"/>
      <xref linkend="perl-encode-jis2k"/>
      <xref linkend="perl-file-slurper"/>
      <xref linkend="perl-io-string"/>
      <!-- IPC::Cmd is a part of core perl -->
      <xref linkend="perl-ipc-run3"/>
      <xref linkend="perl-lingua-translit"/>
      <xref linkend="perl-list-allutils"/>
      <xref linkend="perl-list-moreutils"/>
      <!-- perl-list-moreutils-xs is a dep of perl-list-moreutils -->
      <xref linkend="perl-log-log4perl"/>
      <xref linkend="perl-lwp-protocol-https"/>
      <!-- LWP::Simple is part of perl-libwww-perl,
      that is pulled in by perl-lwp-protocol-https
      and that pulls in perl-uri -->
      <xref linkend="perl-module-build"/>
      <xref linkend="perl-perlio-utf8_strict"/>
      <!-- Mozilla::CA should not be needed when using system certificates -->
      <xref linkend="perl-regexp-common"/>
      <xref linkend="perl-sort-key"/>
      <xref linkend="perl-text-bibtex"/>
      <xref linkend="perl-text-csv"/>
      <!-- perl-text-csv_xs is a recommended dependency for perl-text-csv -->
      <xref linkend="perl-text-roman"/>
      <!-- Unicode-Collate usually needs to be latest when biber is released,
        core perl is usually older. To read the core version, look at
        /usr/lib/perl5/5.xx.y/x86_64-linux-thread-multi/Unicode/Collate.pm -->
      <xref linkend="perl-unicode-collate"/>
      <!-- Unicode::GCstring is part of Unicode::LineBreak -->
      <xref linkend="perl-unicode-linebreak"/>
      <!-- Unicode::Normalize is part of core perl, found in
        /usr/lib/perl5/5.xx.y/x86_64-linux-thread-multi/Unicode/Normalize.pm -->
      <!-- perl-xml-libxml is a dependency of perl-xml-libxml-simple -->
      <xref linkend="perl-xml-libxml-simple"/>
      <xref linkend="perl-xml-libxslt"/>
      <xref linkend="perl-xml-writer"/> and
      <!-- untarring biblatex requires that the texmf directories already exist -->
      <xref linkend="texlive"/>
      (or <xref linkend="tl-installer"/>, but for that you can use
       <command>tlmgr update </command>)
    </para>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Recommended (required for the testsuite)</bridgehead>
    <para role="recommended">
      <xref linkend="perl-file-which"/> and
      <xref linkend="perl-test-differences"/>
    </para>

    <note>
      <para>
        It is possible to install all missing dependencies automatically. You
        must first install <xref linkend="perl-module-build"/> using <xref
        linkend="perl-auto-install"/>. then run <command>perl ./Build.PL</command>
        and when it prompts you, become the root user and run
        <command>./Build installdeps</command>
      </para>
    </note>

    <para condition="html" role="usernotes">User Notes:
    <ulink url='&blfs-wiki;/biber'/></para>

  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="installation">
    <title>Installation of Biber</title>

    <para>Install <application>Biber</application> by running the following
    commands:</para>

<screen><userinput>perl ./Build.PL &amp;&amp;
./Build</userinput></screen>

    <para>To test the results, enter: <command>./Build test</command></para>

    <para>Now, as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:</para>

<screen role="root"><userinput>tar -xf ../biblatex-&biblatex-version;.tds.tgz -C /opt/texlive/&texlive-year;/texmf-dist &amp;&amp;
texhash &amp;&amp;
./Build install</userinput></screen>

  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="commands">
    <title>Command Explanations</title>

    <para>
      <command>tar -xf biblatex-&biblatex-version;.tds.tar.gz -C
      /opt/texlive/&texlive-year;/texmf-dist</command>:
      this installs the new <application>biblatex</application> files over those
      installed by <application>texlive</application>.
    </para>

    <para>
      <command>texhash</command> : this updates the file hash tables (otherwise
      known as the file name database).
    </para>

  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="content">
    <title>Contents</title>

    <segmentedlist>
      <segtitle>Installed Programs</segtitle>
      <segtitle>Installed Library</segtitle>
      <segtitle>Installed Directory</segtitle>

      <seglistitem>
        <seg>biber</seg>
        <seg>None</seg>
        <seg>/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.*{,/&lt;arch&gt;-linux/auto}/Biber</seg>
      </seglistitem>
    </segmentedlist>

    <variablelist>
      <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
      <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
      <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>

      <varlistentry id="biber-prog">
        <term><command>biber</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>is used for producing bibliographies in LaTeX documents.</para>
          <indexterm zone="biber biber-prog">
            <primary sortas="b-biber">biber</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

    </variablelist>

  </sect2>

</sect1>