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TeX Live: missing biber executable |
Date: |
Sun, 01 Nov 2015 12:22:42 +0100 |
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Notmuch on Emacs |
Hi,
I have been trying out the guix package manager on top of Debian
Jessie for a few weeks and I ran into a problem installing TeX
Live, namely with the bibtex replacement biber.
TeX Live installs fine, and all the executables are available in
my user profile, except for biber. I digged a bit, and it seems
that while biber is included in the TeX Live texmf-dist tree, it
is not under share/texmf-dist/scripts but
share/texmf-dist/source/bibtex/biber, in a compressed tarball
biblatex-biber.tar.gz, from which biblatex-biber-1.8 can be
extracted. From this directory, I was able to run the perl build
and install tools.
Clément
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Re: bug#21806: TeX Live: missing biber executable |
Date: |
Wed, 25 Jan 2017 11:54:45 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.1 (gnu/linux) |
Hi,
For the record Biber was added in commit
d400068085ed3cf1a0cb956e25812033a97b7b2c (Nov. 2016).
Ludo’.
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