Biber is a BibTeX replacement for users of biblatex, written in Perl, with full Unicode support.
This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-10.1 platform.
Download (HTTP): https://github.com/plk/biber/archive/v2.16/biber-2.16.tar.gz
Download MD5 sum: fafae81d8ae67314692e2b646024fa98
Download size: 1.6 MB
Estimated disk space required: 18 MB
Estimated build time: 0.5 SBU including tests
![[Note]](../images/note.png)
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/2020 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.
The corresponding version of biblatex is a separate project - the tds
tarball is pre-packaged for untarring into the texmf-dist directory. Download (HTTP):
https://sourceforge.net/projects/biblatex/files/biblatex-3.16/biblatex-3.16.tds.tgz
Download MD5 sum: 30342c8ef5309e838968fcb06a314a36
Download size: 20 MB
autovivification-0.18 Business-ISBN-3.006 Business-ISMN-1.202 Business-ISSN-1.004 Class-Accessor-0.51 Data-Compare-1.27 Data-Dump-1.23 Data-Uniqid-0.12 DateTime-Calendar-Julian-0.104 DateTime-Format-Builder-0.83 Encode-EUCJPASCII-0.03 Encode-HanExtra-0.23 Encode-JIS2K-0.03 File-Slurper-0.012 IO-String-1.08 IPC-Run3-0.048 Lingua-Translit-0.28 List-AllUtils-0.18 List-MoreUtils-0.430 Log-Log4perl-1.54 LWP-Protocol-https-6.10 Module-Build-0.4231 Parse-RecDescent-1.967015 PerlIO-utf8_strict-0.008 Regexp-Common-2017060201 Sort-Key-1.33 Text-BibTeX-0.88 Text-CSV-2.00 Text-Roman-3.5 Unicode-Collate-1.29 Unicode-LineBreak-2019.001 XML-LibXML-Simple-1.01 XML-LibXSLT-1.99 XML-Writer-0.900 and texlive-20200406 (or install-tl-unx, but for that you can use tlmgr update)
File-Which-1.24 and Test-Differences-0.67
It is possible to install all missing dependencies automatically. You must first install Module-Build-0.4231 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.
User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/biber
Install Biber by running the following commands:
perl ./Build.PL && ./Build
To test the results, enter: ./Build test
Now, as the root user:
tar -xf ../biblatex-3.16.tds.tgz -C /opt/texlive/2020/texmf-dist && texhash && ./Build install
tar -xf biblatex-3.16.tds.tar.gz -C /opt/texlive/2020/texmf-dist: this installs the new biblatex files over those installed by texlive.
texhash : this updates the file hash tables (otherwise known as the file name database).
Last updated on 2021-04-05 07:36:04 -0500