How to Install and Uninstall biber Package on Debian 10 (Buster)

Last updated: February 16,2025

1. Install "biber" package

This is a short guide on how to install biber on Debian 10 (Buster)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
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2. Uninstall "biber" package

This guide covers the steps necessary to uninstall biber on Debian 10 (Buster):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the biber package on Debian 10 (Buster)

Package: biber
Version: 2.12-2
Installed-Size: 1546
Maintainer: Debian TeX maintainers
Architecture: all
Depends: tex-common (>= 6), perl (>= 5.26), libautovivification-perl, libclass-accessor-perl, libdata-compare-perl, libdata-dump-perl, libdata-uniqid-perl, libdate-simple-perl, libdatetime-perl, libdatetime-format-builder-perl, libdatetime-calendar-julian-perl, libencode-eucjpms-perl, libencode-hanextra-perl, libencode-jis2k-perl, libfile-slurper-perl, libipc-run3-perl, liblwp-protocol-https-perl, liblingua-translit-perl (>= 0.28), liblist-allutils-perl, liblist-moreutils-perl, liblog-log4perl-perl, libreadonly-perl, libregexp-common-perl, libsort-key-perl, libtext-bibtex-perl (>= 0.85), libtext-csv-perl, libtext-csv-xs-perl, libtext-roman-perl, libunicode-collate-perl (>= 1.21), libunicode-linebreak-perl, libwww-perl, libxml-libxml-simple-perl, libxml-libxslt-perl, libxml-writer-perl, libbusiness-isbn-perl, libbusiness-ismn-perl, libbusiness-issn-perl, liburi-perl
Recommends: texlive-bibtex-extra
Breaks: biblatex (<< 2), texlive-bibtex-extra (<< 2018.20181105)
Description: Much-augmented BibTeX replacement for BibLaTeX users
Description-md5: 2145fae4f6a6ba45840729fab8ef9657
Homepage: http://biblatex-biber.sourceforge.net/
Section: perl
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/b/biber/biber_2.12-2_all.deb
Size: 529020
MD5sum: a3c6e073b6343becee7ca3345373a74d
SHA256: 8889f20cd81c50e0fa93efc3cb4e693fe976851d24ba2e9ecf6923e86c942e85