bug#21806: TeX Live: missing biber executable

Hi, For the record Biber was added in commit d400068085ed3cf1a0cb956e25812033a97b7b2c (Nov. 2016). Ludo’.

bug#21806: TeX Live: missing biber executable

Clément skribis: > Ludovic Courtès writes: > >> Sure, no problem. I just wanted to know if you had given up or stumbled >> upon a problem where we could help. :-) > > I think I am nearly there, I have packaged all biber > dependencies, but I still have some

bug#21806: TeX Live: missing biber executable

Clément skribis: > Ludovic Courtès writes: > >> Did you have a chance to look into it? :-) > > I started, but I got scared by the number of dependencies. I > still intend to work on it though, but will be a little short on > time until the end of the month. Is

bug#21806: TeX Live: missing biber executable

Clément skribis: > Ludovic Courtès writes: > >> I gave it a try, and below is an initial patch. It misses some of the >> dependencies required to run the test suite, but that shouldn’t be too >> hard to address; the next thing is to address issues reported by

bug#21806: TeX Live: missing biber executable

Ludovic Courtès writes: > I gave it a try, and below is an initial patch. It misses some of the > dependencies required to run the test suite, but that shouldn’t be too > hard to address; the next thing is to address issues reported by ‘guix > lint biber’. Would you like to give

bug#21806: TeX Live: missing biber executable

Clément skribis: > So I don't know if building it from source is feasible for > Guix. I could try to have a look, but have zero experience with > Guix or Perl build system. Anyway, the biber package is indeed > available on sourceforge². I gave it a try, and below is an

bug#21806: TeX Live: missing biber executable

Hi, Ludovic Courtès writes: > Sorry for the late reply. My turn to apologise for the delay ! > Maybe we should make it a separate package? > Is the biblatex-biber-1.8.tar.gz available separately upstream? Apparently, there has been some discussion about whether or not to

bug#21806: TeX Live: missing biber executable

Clément skribis: > 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 >

bug#21806: TeX Live: missing biber executable

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,