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-7.10 platform.
Download (HTTP): http://sourceforge.net/projects/biblatex-biber/files/biblatex-biber/current/biblatex-biber.tar.gz
Download MD5 sum: md5sum 747c3c86eff58ccbc1b419357f665ebd
Download size: 816 KB
Estimated disk space required: 31 MB
Estimated build time: less than 0.1 SBU (0.83 SBU to run the tests)
The corresponding version of biblatex is a separate project - the tds
tarball is pre-packaged for untarring into the texmf-dist directory. Download (HTTP):
http://sourceforge.net/projects/biblatex/files/biblatex-3.4/biblatex-3.4.tds.tgz
Download MD5 sum: 322d8f7aec957b2af4e7d3462d0c4818
Download size: 19 MB
autovivification-0.16 Business::ISBN-3.002 Business::ISMN-1.13 Business::ISSN-1.001 Class::Accessor-0.34 Data::Compare-1.25 Data::Dump-1.23 Data::Uniqid-0.12 Date::Simple-3.03 Encode::EUCJPASCII-0.03 Encode::HanExtra-0.23 Encode::JIS2K-0.03 File::Slurp-9999.19 IPC::Run3-0.048 Lingua::Translit-0.26 List::AllUtils-0.11 List::MoreUtils-0.416 Log::Log4perl-1.47 LWP::Protocol::https-6.06 Module-Build-0.4220 Regexp::Common-2016060801 Text::BibTeX-0.76 Text::Roman-3.5 Unicode::Collate-1.14 Unicode::LineBreak-2016.003 Unicode::Normalize-1.25 XML::LibXML::Simple-0.97 XML::LibXSLT-1.95 XML::Writer-0.625 and texlive-20160523b (or install-tl-unx)
File::Which-1.21 and Test::Differences-0.64 to run the testsuite
![[Note]](../images/note.png)
Although the tarball name is unversioned, it will untar to a correctly-versioned biblatex-biber-2.5 directory.
It is almost possible to install all missing dependencies automatically. Except, from perl-5.22.0 onwards, Module-Build-0.4220 is no longer part of the core perl distribution. And for Data::Uniqid-0.12 we have to patch it to skip over a test which always fails - that failing test will probably break the automatic install. To automatically install the remaining perl dependencies you will need to manually install those two modules first. You can then run perl ./Build.PL and when it prompts you, become the root user and run ./Build installdeps
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 - you will require the en_GB.UTF-8 and sv_SE.UTF-8 locales. Test 12 of t/sort-order.t will fail : for speed the tests use system locales instead of the default Unicode::Collation algorithm, and some minor details of the locales in OSX (where development takes place) differ from those in glibc
Now, as the root user:
tar -xf ../biblatex-3.4.tds.tgz -C /opt/texlive/2016/texmf-dist && texhash && ./Build install
tar -xf biblatex-3.4.tds.tar.gz -C /opt/texlive/2016/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 2016-08-31 10:57:05 -0700