[Fedora TeX Live] Biber is missing

Mads M. Hansen madsmh at gmail.com
Fri Jul 26 14:24:38 CEST 2013


Thank you for setting up the repo for biber.

I tried installing biber today and it seems that a dependency is missing:

Error: Package: biber-1.7-1.fc19.noarch (fedora-biber)
           Requires: perl(File::Slurp::Unicode)

- Mads


2013/7/5 Mary Ellen Foster <mefoster at gmail.com>

> On 4 July 2013 21:35, Mads M. Hansen <madsmh at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I have noticed that Biber is missing from the texlive-scheme-full
>> installation, which is unfortunate as it is included with the TUG Texlive
>> disto... Are there any plans on adding it?
>>
>
> I'm not sure why it's not included in the ginormous texlive build ... but
> note that for F18, I actually made a quick-and-dirty package of
> biber+dependencies in a private repo:
>     http://repos.fedorapeople.org/repos/mef/biber/
> I'll add F19 packages to that repo today.
>
> It would be good to get biber reviewed for Fedora -- note that there area
> a dozen or so perl dependencies that need to be reviewed first, and I'm not
> really a perl programmer (just used
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Perl/cpanspec to generate bare-bones RPMs).
> But if anyone is interested in helping me push this through the Fedora
> review process, I'm willing to file the initial review bugs.
>
> MEF
>
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> Mary Ellen Foster -- http://www.macs.hw.ac.uk/~mef3/
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>
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>
>
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