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bagge

Member

Registered: 2023-06-13

Posts: 1

Biber not part of $PATH after installation

Hi.

I have had an issue, with biber, where it is not part of $PATH after installation.

I can see that others have had the same problem before:
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=260069

I did not have any unresolved .pacnew files.
I found biber under /usr/bin/vendor_perl/biber and added the path manually to $PATH.

I can see that perl have some policies on where to place files:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Perl_Policy

, but shouldn't a package installed from the official repo by pacman be in $PATH by default?

Leaving this here in case others stumble upon the same problem.

Scimmia

Fellow

Registered: 2012-09-01

Posts: 13,727

Re: Biber not part of $PATH after installation

What shell? If you're on fish or something, you need to set things up yourself. Most other things should be sourcing /etc/profile, which would set this up.