How To Install biber on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install biber in Fedora 36. biber is Command-line bibliographic manager, BibTeX replacement

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install biber on Fedora 36.

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 36. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install biber.

Install biber on Fedora 36 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install biber using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install biber

Install biber on Fedora 36 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

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 36

To uninstall only the biber package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove biber

biber Package Contents on Fedora 36

/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::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/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

References

biber website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install biber on Fedora 36 using yum and [dnf]((/fedora/36/dnf/).