[Tex/LaTex] Xubuntu 12.04 + Tex Live 2012 no biblatex binary and no biber

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I am getting really confused now. I installed Tex Live 2012 on my Xubuntu 12.04 with a backport and I installed TexMaker.

I could user PdfLatex right away and it generated everything I needed except my bibliography. I read that Tex Live 2012 comes with biblatex so I just changed the bibtex command in TexMaker from "bibtex" to "biblatex". However, that does not exist. So I did

sudo apt-get remove biblatex
sudo apt-get install biblatex

The package is installed but I don't find the binary.
Using bibtex the whole thing crashes. Which does not surprise me since I want to userbiber:

\usepackage[backend=biber]{biblatex}

Btw does biber come with biblatex? So far I couldn't get any clear explanation what biber and biblatex are to each other.

EDIT:
I had to remove texlive completely and install it with the install script form http://www.tug.org/texlive/quickinstall.html. Apparently the newest version of biber does not work with the older version of biblatex I had.

Best Answer

You need to install the biber package, too. This is a separate package in Debian/Ubuntu family.

(X)Ubuntu 12.04 uses biblatex version 1.7-1; you can verify this by running:

apt-cache show biblatex

According to the biber documentation, the last biber release to support biblatex 1.7 is biber 0.9.9.

You can download the appropriate version of biber 0.9.9—32bit or 64bit—here: http://sourceforge.net/projects/biblatex-biber/files/biblatex-biber/0.9.9/binaries/Linux/

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