How To Install biber on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install biber on Kali Linux.

What is biber

biber is:

The biblatex package by Philipp Lehman is becoming the definitive citation management tool for LaTeX users. Biblatex has relied on the venerable BibTeX program only for sorting and generating a very generic .bbl file without any formatting instruction. Everything else is taken care of by biblatex, which provides a powerful and flexible macro interface for authors of citation styles.

Biber offers a large superset of BibTeX functionality for BibLaTeX users. In addition it offers full UTF-8 (Unicode 6.0) capabilities, fully customisable sorting, output to GraphViz to help visualise complex crossrefs, support for remote data sources, structural validation of the data against the (customisable) data model, and a lot more.

There are three methods to install biber on Kali Linux. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install biber Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install biber using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install biber

Install biber Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install biber

Install biber Using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude on Kali Linux first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Kali Linux. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install biber using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install biber

How To Uninstall biber on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove biber

Uninstall biber And Its Dependencies

To uninstall biber and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove biber

Remove biber Configurations and Data

To remove biber configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge biber

Remove biber configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove biber configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge biber

Dependencies

biber have the following dependencies:

• tex-common
• perl

References

• biber website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install biber package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.