biber-2.20

Introduction to biber

Biber is a BibTeX replacement for users of biblatex, written in Perl, with full Unicode support.

[Note]

Note

Development versions of BLFS may not build or run some packages properly if LFS or dependencies have been updated since the most recent stable versions of the books.

Package Information

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Note

If you have updated to a new release of texlive-source, biber and its perl dependencies are still present in /usr and do not need to be rebuilt. However, biblatex installs in /opt/texlive/2024 and does need to be reinstalled.

If you installed the above dependencies using the BLFS instructions for each of them, perl ./Build.PL will complain that Mozilla::CA is not installed, but that is not needed unless CPAN was used to install the modules. BLFS patches LWP::Protocol::https to use the system certificates, Mozilla::CA uses old certificates.

Biber Dependencies

Required

autovivification-0.18, Business-ISBN-3.009, Business-ISMN-1.204, Business-ISSN-1.005, Class-Accessor-0.51, Data-Compare-1.29, Data-Dump-1.25, Data-Uniqid-0.12, DateTime-Calendar-Julian-0.107, DateTime-Format-Builder-0.83, Encode-EUCJPASCII-0.03, Encode-HanExtra-0.23, Encode-JIS2K-0.05, File-Slurper-0.014, IO-String-1.08, IPC-Run3-0.049, Lingua-Translit-0.29, List-AllUtils-0.19, List-MoreUtils-0.430, Log-Log4perl-1.57, LWP-Protocol-https-6.14, Module-Build-0.4234, Parse-RecDescent-1.967015, PerlIO-utf8_strict-0.010, Regexp-Common-2024080801, Sort-Key-1.33, Text-BibTeX-0.89, Text-CSV-2.04, Text-Roman-3.5, Unicode-Collate-1.31, Unicode-LineBreak-2019.001, XML-LibXML-Simple-1.01, XML-LibXSLT-2.003000, and XML-Writer-0.900

Recommended (required for the test suite)

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Note

It is possible to install all missing dependencies automatically. You must first install Module-Build-0.4234 using automatic installation of perl modules. Then run perl ./Build.PL and when it prompts you, become the root user and run ./Build installdeps - this will use CPAN and as noted above it will use Mozilla::CA instead of using system certificates.

Installation of Biber

Install Biber by running the following commands:

perl ./Build.PL &&
./Build

To test the results, enter: ./Build test

Now, as the root user:

./Build install

Contents

Installed Programs: biber
Installed Library: None
Installed Directory: /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.*{,/<arch>-linux/auto}/Biber

Short Descriptions

biber

is used for producing bibliographies in LaTeX documents