Beyond Linux® From Scratch (System V Edition) - Version 12.2

Chapter 51. Typesetting

biber-2.20

Introduction to biber

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 12.2 platform.

Package Information

[Note]

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)

File-Which-1.27 and Test-Differences-0.71

[Note]

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