Bibtex not running after upgrading Ubuntu from 13.04 to 13.10

Question

I'm having problems with my latex installation on Ubuntu 13.10. Have been using it successfully for a while on Ubuntu 13.04, after I updated bibtex doesn't seem to work.

The error I get is:

This is BibTeX, Version 0.99d (TeX Live 2013/Debian)
The top-level auxiliary file: paper.aux
I found no \citation commands---while reading file paper.aux
I found no \bibdata command---while reading file paper.aux
I found no \bibstyle command---while reading file paper.aux
(There were 3 error messages)

I have removed all texlive packages from my system and re-installed texlive-full and kile without success.

Any ideas on how to solve this?

Thanks!

Edit1: Example of .tex file:

\documentclass[a4paper,10pt]{article}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} % File encoding, you should try to stick to utf8.

\usepackage{csquotes} % Needed for biblatex
\usepackage[maxnames= 10, minnames = 10]{biblatex} % Modern bibliography facilities (you may change style to numeric). change to old bibtex if you insist on using that.
\usepackage{booktabs}

\usepackage{mathtools} % All your math related needs
\usepackage{tikz} % Draw figures, required for cover page
\usepackage{subfig} % Subfloats

\addbibresource{bibliography} 

\title{}
\author{}

\begin{document}
\section{test}
Citation\cite{Pironneau1984}

\cleardoublepage
\printbibliography

\end{document}

And bibliography.bib:

@article{Pironneau1984,
author = {Pironneau, O.},
journal = {Springer-Verlag},
title = {{Optimal Shape Design for Elliptic Systems}},
year = {1984}
}

Solution:

I found a solution to this problem when you suggested running biber.

sudo apt-get install biber

and the bibliography started working again, even without the .bib extension. Not sure why I had to install it separately as it was working fine before.

Thanks for the suggestions @CV4, @Māris Ozols & @MMA!

As explained by @jon the default engine is now biber intead of bibtex which explains why the biber packages is needed.

Answer 1

You are using biblatex instead of regular bibtex. That means two things:

1. You have to specify file extension when you add the *.bib file: \addbibresource{bibliography.bib}.
2. You have to call biber paper from command line to compile the bibliography.

After that, just compile your paper again and see if it works.

Answer 2

You are using biblatex, then you have to define a backend for biblatex. I think you have to see a warning at compiling like this: Package biblatex Warning: No "backend" specified, using Biber backend.

So I think the best way will be configuring your Editor (kile, if I read right) to use biber as processor for your bibliography. Your compile-chain will be then:

pdflatex paper.tex -> biber paper -> pdflatex paper.tex -> pdflatex paper.tex

Further you can clearly define biber as your biblatex backend by adding the option

backend=biber

to \usepackage[...]{biblatex}.

Please also think about defining the bibencoding, like you specify your inputenc, by passing option

bibencoding=utf8

to the same \usepackage command.

Answer 3

Don't forget that you still can use BibTeX if needed or so desired; the default engine is now biber, so it defaults to that if you don't make an explicit declaration, but you could have this in your preamble:

\usepackage[backend=bibtex, % <--
  maxnames=10, minnames=10]{biblatex}
\addbibresource{bibliography.bib}

and, after begin{document}, the standard

\printbibliography

Then you compile with the normal (or 'old') tool chain:

latex  file.tex
bibtex file.aux
latex  file.tex
latex  file.tex

And things will work normally unless you use a (biblatex) bibliography style that specifically requires biber as the engine.