On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 12:40 PM, Wolfgang Engelmann < engelm...@uni-tuebingen.de> wrote:
> > Am 17.11.2014 um 16:23 schrieb stefano franchi: > > On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 7:20 AM, Wolfgang Engelmann > <engelm...@uni-tuebingen.de> wrote: > > > Thanks, Julien and Stefano > for your suggestions. For the time being I changed the bst file at the > appropriate site (and->und). I might try archlinux later. > > > Oops, I didn't mean to suggest that switching distribution is the only > solution for installing biber! > I do think, however, that running TeXLive under Ubuntu/Debian may cause > problems *unless* you ditch the Ubuntu-provided packages and switch to the > true TeXLive distribution. I believe our own Scott K has indeed written a > series of scripts to make that process easier [1] > > Cheers, > > Stefano > > > [1]https://github.com/scottkosty/install-tl-ubuntu/blob/master/install-tl-ubuntu > > That sounds good. From the install instruction of it: > > To do this, the official TeX Live 2014 installer is downloaded and > used and apt is informed that TeX dependencies are satisfied. Thus, when > you want to install a program with apt-get that depends on TeX Live, apt > will not try to install the TeX Live packages from the Ubuntu > repositories. > > how is apt informed that TeX dependencies are satisfied? > > Wolfgang > Through equivs. It basically installs a dummy package that as far as apt is concerned is the same as installing TeX Live debs. Scott
