biber command not found

Introduction

When you run more command in linux terminal / console, you get the following error message

biber: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: biber: command not found

Solutions to biber: command not found

How To Fix biber: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu biber is provided by biber package.

biber is:

The biblatex package by Philipp Lehman is becoming the definitive citation management tool for LaTeX users. Biblatex has relied on the venerable BibTeX program only for sorting and generating a very generic .bbl file without any formatting instruction. Everything else is taken care of by biblatex, which provides a powerful and flexible macro interface for authors of citation styles.

Biber offers a large superset of BibTeX functionality for BibLaTeX users. In addition it offers full UTF-8 (Unicode 6.0) capabilities, fully customisable sorting, output to GraphViz to help visualise complex crossrefs, support for remote data sources, structural validation of the data against the (customisable) data model, and a lot more.

To fix this problem, we can install more using the command below.

sudo apt-get -y install biber

This command might take some time to finish depending on your machine internet connection.

You can also use apt command to install biber.

sudo apt -y install biber

Or if you have aptitude installed you can use the following command.

sudo aptitude install biber

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to fix biber command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.