How To Install biber on Fedora 34
biber is Command-line bibliographic manager, BibTeX replacement
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install biber on Fedora 34.
What is biber
Biber is a command-line tool for dealing with bibliographic databases. Biber offers a large superset of legacy BibTeX (texlive-bibtex) functionality. It is often used with the popular BibLaTeX package (texlive-biblatex), where it is required for some features.
We can use yum or dnf to install biber on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install biber.
Install biber on Fedora 34 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
Fedora 34 - x86_64 20 kB/s | 6.6 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64 1.4 kB/s | 989 B 00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 68 kB/s | 6.5 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates 3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB 00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates 17 kB/s | 5.9 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install biber using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install biber
Install biber on Fedora 34 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
Fedora 34 - x86_64 20 kB/s | 6.6 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64 1.4 kB/s | 989 B 00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 68 kB/s | 6.5 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates 3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB 00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates 17 kB/s | 5.9 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install biber using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install biber
How To Uninstall biber on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the biber package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove biber
biber Package Contents on Fedora 34
/usr/bin/biber
/usr/share/doc/biber
/usr/share/doc/biber/Changes
/usr/share/doc/biber/README.md
/usr/share/doc/biber/TODO.org
/usr/share/man/man1/biber.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/Biber.3pm.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/Biber::Annotation.3pm.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/Biber::Config.3pm.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/Biber::Constants.3pm.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/Biber::DataList.3pm.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/Biber::DataLists.3pm.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/Biber::DataModel.3pm.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/Biber::Date::Format.3pm.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/Biber::Entries.3pm.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/Biber::Entry.3pm.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/Biber::Entry::Name.3pm.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/Biber::Entry::Names.3pm.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/Biber::Input::file::biblatexml.3pm.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/Biber::Input::file::bibtex.3pm.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/Biber::Internals.3pm.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/Biber::LaTeX::Recode.3pm.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/Biber::LangTag.3pm.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/Biber::LangTags.3pm.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/Biber::Output::base.3pm.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/Biber::Output::bbl.3pm.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/Biber::Output::bblxml.3pm.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/Biber::Output::biblatexml.3pm.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/Biber::Output::bibtex.3pm.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/Biber::Output::dot.3pm.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/Biber::Output::test.3pm.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/Biber::Section.3pm.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/Biber::Sections.3pm.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/Biber::UCollate.3pm.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/Biber::Utils.3pm.gz
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/Biber
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/Biber.pm
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/Biber/Annotation.pm
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/Biber/Config.pm
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/Biber/Constants.pm
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/Biber/DataList.pm
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/Biber/DataLists.pm
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/Biber/DataModel.pm
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/Biber/Date
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/Biber/Date/Format.pm
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/Biber/Entries.pm
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/Biber/Entry
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/Biber/Entry.pm
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/Biber/Entry/Name.pm
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/Biber/Entry/Names.pm
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/Biber/Input
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/Biber/Input/file
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/Biber/Input/file/biblatexml.pm
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/Biber/Input/file/bibtex.pm
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/Biber/Internals.pm
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/Biber/LaTeX
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/Biber/LaTeX/Recode.pm
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/Biber/LaTeX/recode_data.xml
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/Biber/LangTag.pm
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/Biber/LangTags.pm
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/Biber/Output
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/Biber/Output/base.pm
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/Biber/Output/bbl.pm
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/Biber/Output/bblxml.pm
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/Biber/Output/biblatexml.pm
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/Biber/Output/bibtex.pm
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/Biber/Output/dot.pm
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/Biber/Output/test.pm
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/Biber/Section.pm
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/Biber/Sections.pm
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/Biber/UCollate.pm
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/Biber/Utils.pm
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/Biber/bcf.rnc
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/Biber/bcf.rng
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/Biber/bcf.xsl
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/Biber/biber-tool.conf
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/Biber/config.rnc
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/Biber/config.rng
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install biber on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.