bash: biber: command not found?[Solved]

r00tr4t · 2020-10-21 23:13:56

Hello, arch forum.

I'm trying to compile LaTeX on my machine and can not get the bibliography to work.
As a minimal example, I'm following this guide at Wikibooks
I get problems when the following command is to be executed.

$ biber lauraPhd2016Main
-bash: biber: command not found

So to investigate that, first I checked if biber was installed.

$ pacman -Ss biber
community/biber 1:2.14-2 [installed]
    A Unicode-capable BibTeX replacement for biblatex users

Yes its installed. Check if it is some where the system recognize.

$ whereis  biber
biber: /usr/share/man/man1/biber.1p.gz

So the man file is installed. yay. man works.
Then I tested to symlink biber to bibtex but that did not seam to work ether.
Any one know what error i have made this time?

Last edited by r00tr4t (2020-10-22 08:18:12)

Scimmia · 2020-10-21 23:23:13

When you log into a tty, does it show errors? It appears your $PATH is broken, probably because of unmerged .pacnew files.

r00tr4t · 2020-10-22 08:17:48

Wow $PATH was broken.

$ biber
Usage:
      biber [options] file[.bcf]
      biber [options] --tool <datasource>

      Creates "file.bbl" using control file "file.bcf" (".bcf" extension is
      optional). Normally use with biblatex requires no options as they are
      all set in biblatex and passed via the ".bcf" file

      In "tool" mode (see B<--tool> option), takes a datasource (defaults to
      "bibtex" datasource) and outputs a copy of the datasource with any command-line
      or config file options applied.

      Please run "biber --help" for option details

Yea i have quite a few of pacnew files on my computer right now a and solving ./etc/profile.pacnew perhaps fixed it. Will mark tihs thread as solved.

jmjr · 2020-11-12 12:34:00

I have the exact same issue as r00tr4t. But I don't know how to find out if my $PATH is broken and if so, how to fix it. Can you help?

WorMzy · 2020-11-12 13:05:45

If you're not sure how to deal with pacnew files, read https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pa … nd_Pacsave

If that still doesn't help, open a new topic.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Co … ow_to_post

Closing.

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#1 2020-10-21 23:13:56

bash: biber: command not found?[Solved]

#2 2020-10-21 23:23:13

Re: bash: biber: command not found?[Solved]

#3 2020-10-22 08:17:48

Re: bash: biber: command not found?[Solved]

#4 2020-11-12 12:34:00

Re: bash: biber: command not found?[Solved]

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Re: bash: biber: command not found?[Solved]

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