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I use TeXLive 2012 under Ubuntu 12.10. I would like to upgrade biblatex to the latest version (2.3). I tried the following:

  1. download and unpack .tar.gz from https://github.com/plk/biblatex/downloads
  2. put content in local TeX tree /usr/local/texlive/texmf-local:
    • put ./tex/latex/biblatex in /usr/local/texlive/texmf-local/tex/latex
    • put ./bibtex in /usr/local/texlive/texmf-local (replace the existing "bibtex" there)
  3. mktexlsr (i.e., texhash)

When compiling documents, I suddenly obtain:

/usr/local/texlive/2012/../texmf-local/tex/latex/biblatex/biblatex.sty:87: Miss
ing number, treated as zero.
<to be read again> 
                   D
l.87 

?

I checked back with the README and I have all other required (and strongly recommended packages). How is upgrading of biblatex done properly?

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i'm using ubuntu 12.04 (our linux manager prefers lts...), and i have a biblatex bundle available to add on to the system’s tex live. does 12.10 not have that? – wasteofspace Nov 28 '12 at 11:33
I also had biblatex installed, but I want to upgrade (partly due to the answer here tex.stackexchange.com/questions/84557/…) – Marius Hofert Nov 28 '12 at 11:38
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@MariusHofert Follow the readme instructions. Files at github are under development and require a build script to install. 2.3 is available from CTAN. A development version of 2.4 can be downloaded from SF. – Audrey Nov 28 '12 at 14:18
Thanks a lot, Audrey, the SF version worked fine! – Marius Hofert Nov 28 '12 at 14:40

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  1. From SourceForge download biber v.1.4 (http://sourceforge.net/projects/biblatex-biber/)
  2. From SourceForge download biblatex v.2.4. (http://sourceforge.net/projects/biblatex/)
  3. Create two temp dirs: mkdir tempbb && mkdir tempbl
  4. Uncompress biber-linux_x86_32.tar.gz to the temp directory: tar -zxvf biber-linux_x86_32.tar.gz -C tempbb/
  5. Uncompress biblatex-2.4.tds.tgz to the temp directory: tar -zxvf biblatex-2.4.tds.tgz -C tempbl/
  6. Move the contents of the files in the tempbb temp directory to /usr/local/texlive/2012/texmf-dist/ thus: sudo rsync -azvv tempbl/ /usr/local/texlive/2012/texmf-dist/
  7. Move the biber bin from your temp directory to /usr/local/texlive/2012/texmf-dist/ thus: sudo rsync -azvv tempbl/ /usr/local/texlive/2012/bin/i386-linux/
  8. Test that everything is working fine.
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For what it's worth, my install paths were: /usr/local/bin/ for biber and /usr/share/texmf/ for biblatex. Otherwise worked nicely, thanks NVaughan. – Christoph B. Feb 18 at 15:49

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