How to Install and Uninstall biber Package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Last updated: November 22,2024

You can also install and uninstall the biber on the following distributions in the same way, as they are all based on the Debian system

MX Linux 23
SparkyLinux

1. Install "biber" package

This is a short guide on how to install biber on Debian 12 (Bookworm)


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

This is a short guide on how to uninstall biber on Debian 12 (Bookworm):


    
        
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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 12 (Bookworm)

Package: biber
Version: 2.18-1
Installed-Size: 1683
Maintainer: Debian TeX Task Force
Architecture: all
Depends: tex-common (>= 6.13), perl:any, perl (>= 5.30), 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, liblist-allutils-perl, liblist-moreutils-perl, liblog-log4perl-perl, libparse-recdescent-perl, libreadonly-perl, libregexp-common-perl, libsort-key-perl, libtext-bibtex-perl (>= 0.88), libtext-csv-perl, libtext-csv-xs-perl, libtext-roman-perl, libunicode-collate-perl, libwww-perl, libxml-libxml-simple-perl, libxml-libxslt-perl, libxml-writer-perl, libbusiness-isbn-perl, libbusiness-ismn-perl, libbusiness-issn-perl, liburi-perl, libunicode-linebreak-perl, libencode-eucjpascii-perl
Recommends: texlive-bibtex-extra
Breaks: biblatex (<< 2), texlive-bibtex-extra (<< 2022.20220722)
Description: Much-augmented BibTeX replacement for BibLaTeX users
Description-md5: 2145fae4f6a6ba45840729fab8ef9657
Homepage: http://biblatex-biber.sourceforge.net/
Tag: implemented-in::perl, interface::commandline, role::program,
science::bibliography, works-with-format::bib
Section: perl
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/b/biber/biber_2.18-1_all.deb
Size: 558356
MD5sum: 194ba3b4202f43fa9a7597a5a96e91ff
SHA256: cbca461dd0c59727fb748c7ed8eaff909ffad3eeb3d21a5648533f67deae2d17