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dlesnoff

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Registered: 2020-03-26

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[Solved] Biblatex version is incompatible with Biber

I can not report a bug report, account registration is currently closed.
Biblatex version is older and thus not compatible with biber.

ERROR - Error: Found biblatex control file version 3.10, expected version 3.11.
This means that your biber (2.20) and biblatex (3.19) versions are incompatible.
See compat matrix in biblatex or biber PDF documentation.

In the CTAN documentation, the compatibility matrix shows that biber 2.20 works with biblatex 3.20 only.
The biblatex binary is part from texlive-binextra. Please update biblatex.

Last edited by dlesnoff (2025-07-26 17:22:26)

dlesnoff

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Registered: 2020-03-26

Posts: 25

Re: [Solved] Biblatex version is incompatible with Biber

Sorry, after inspection, it seems that biblatex is not part of the texlive-binextra anymore.
I had a local installation of biblatex:

$ pacman -Qs biblatex
local/texlive-local-biblatex 66403-1 (texlive-local)
    TeX Live - local installation of CTAN package biblatex

I removed it with `pacman -Rs texlive-local-biblatex` and reinstalled `texlive-local-biblatex`.
Now a latex compilation returns `biblatex.sty` not found.

arojas

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Registered: 2011-10-09

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Re: [Solved] Biblatex version is incompatible with Biber

Account registration is not closed, you just need to send an email, it's not that hard.

But texlive-local-biblatex is not an official package, so there's nothing to report anyway. If you need to figure out which official package contains `biblatex.sty`, use pacman -F

dlesnoff

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Registered: 2020-03-26

Posts: 25

Re: [Solved] Biblatex version is incompatible with Biber

Sorry for the very unuseful post.
I had a custom local installation of texlive, and I removed AUR packages of CTAN packages.