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# 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 12.3 platform.

### Package Information

- Download (HTTP): https://github.com/plk/biber/archive/v2.20/biber-2.20.tar.gz

- Download MD5 sum: a7f400cdac3a3d9d9ab13ca053eb6791

- Download size: 1.6 MB

- Estimated disk space required: 15 MB (installs 1.6MB of perl modules)

- Estimated build time: 0.4 SBU including tests

### 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-3.011, Business-ISMN-1.204, Business-ISSN-1.008, 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-0.91, Text-CSV-2.05, 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

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

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