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MYaseen208
Asked: 2016-12-05 04:17:29 +0800 CST

Biblatex 3.6 on Ubuntu 16.04 with Texlive 2016

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I installed Tex Live 2016 on Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS using

sudo apt-get install texlive-full

Now References are not working. When I use biber in LYX 2.2.2, I get the following error:

Biber error: Error: Found biblatex control file version 3.1, expected version 3.2.

I tried 

sudo apt-get install texlive-bibtex-extra biber

it says,

texlive-bibtex-extra is already the newest version (2016.20160520-1~ubuntu16.04.1york1).
biber is already the newest version (2.6.0-0york1~16.04).

I guess, I have old version of Biblatex. I could not figure out how to install the latest version of Biblatex. Any help will be highly appreciated. Thanks

16.04

1 Answers

  1. Best Answer
    1. Use kpsewhich biblatex.sty to get /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/biblatex/biblatex.st‌​y.
    2. From SourceForge download biber v.2.6.
    3. From SourceForge download biblatex v.3.6
    4. Create two temp dirs: mkdir tempbb && mkdir tempbl

    5. Uncompress biber-cygwin64.tar.gz and biblatex-3.6.tds.tgz to the temp directories: 

      tar -zxvf biber-cygwin64.tar.gz -C tempbb/
tar -zxvf biblatex-3.6.tds.tgz -C tempbl/

    6. Move the contents of the files in the tempbl temp directory to /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/ thus: 

      sudo rsync -azvv tempbl/ /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/

    7. Move the biber bin from your temp directory to /usr/share/texlive/ thus:

      sudo rsync -azvv tempbl/ /usr/share/texlive/
    8. Run mktexlsr
    9. Test that everything is working fine.
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