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Installed Programs: biber
Installed Library: None
Installed Directory: /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.*{,/<arch>-linux/auto}/Biber
biber-2.18
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 11.3 platform.
Package Information
Download (HTTP): https://github.com/plk/biber/archive/v2.18/biber-2.18.tar.gz
Download MD5 sum: 5a503052bf88aff12dcef7a2d8a8e4f2
Download size: 1.5 MB
Estimated disk space required: 14 MB
Estimated build time: 0.4 SBU including tests
![[Note]](../images/note.png)
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/2022 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.
Required Additional Download
Download (HTTP): https://sourceforge.net/projects/biblatex/files/biblatex-3.18/biblatex-3.18b.tds.tgz
Download MD5 sum: cd4c996e5ad4431c9f89c6e6c37a38df
Download size: 18 MB
Biber Dependencies
Required
autovivification-0.18 Business-ISBN-3.007 Business-ISMN-1.202 Business-ISSN-1.005 Class-Accessor-0.51 Data-Compare-1.27 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-0.03 File-Slurper-0.014 IO-String-1.08 IPC-Run3-0.048 Lingua-Translit-0.29 List-AllUtils-0.19 List-MoreUtils-0.430 Log-Log4perl-1.57 LWP-Protocol-https-6.10 Module-Build-0.4232 Parse-RecDescent-1.967015 PerlIO-utf8_strict-0.010 Regexp-Common-2017060201 Sort-Key-1.33 Text-BibTeX-0.89 Text-CSV-2.02 Text-Roman-3.5 Unicode-Collate-1.31 Unicode-LineBreak-2019.001 XML-LibXML-Simple-1.01 XML-LibXSLT-2.002001 XML-Writer-0.900
Recommended (required for the test suite)
File-Which-1.27 and Test-Differences-0.69
Note
It is possible to install all missing dependencies automatically. You must first install Module-Build-0.4232 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: https://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/biber
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
The corresponding version of biblatex is
a separate project. The tarball is pre-packaged for untarring
into the texmf-dist
directory. Install it as the root user:
tar -C $TEXLIVE_PREFIX/texmf-dist -xf ../biblatex-3.18b.tds.tgz