Biber on OpenSUSE 15.2

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Hello all,
I’m having a problem with biber since a couple of weeks. When starting it just echos and exits.

#biber 
No biber available due to old perl installation

Same problem was postet here but for Leap 15.3 with wrong texlive repo: https://forums.opensuse.org/showthread.php/556478-Biber-on-OpenSUSE-15-3
I’m using Leap 15.2.

texlive and all its packages are coming from the texlive repo and are up to date.

#zypper repos -u 
Repository priorities in effect:
      90 (raised priority)  :  1 repository 
      99 (default priority) : 10 repositories 
 
#  | Alias               | Name                                                | Enabled | GPG Check | Refresh | URI 
---+---------------------+-----------------------------------------------------+---------+-----------+---------+----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 
 1 | NVIDIA              | NVIDIA                                              | Yes     | (r ) Yes  | No      | https://download.nvidia.com/opensuse/leap/15.2 
 2 | Publishing          | Publishing Tools and Libraries (openSUSE_Leap_15.2) | Yes     | (r ) Yes  | No      | https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/Publishing/openSUSE_Leap_15.2/ 
 3 | Publishing_TeXLive  | Build Environment for TeX Live (openSUSE_Leap_15.2) | Yes     | (r ) Yes  | No      | https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/Publishing:/TeXLive/openSUSE_Leap_15.2/ 
 4 | hardware            | Hardware tools (openSUSE_Leap_15.2)                 | Yes     | (r ) Yes  | No      | https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/hardware/openSUSE_Leap_15.2/ 
 5 | mozilla             | Mozilla based projects (openSUSE_Leap_15.2)         | Yes     | (r ) Yes  | Yes     | https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/mozilla/openSUSE_Leap_15.2/ 
 6 | network_im_signal   | Signal Messaging Devel Project (openSUSE_Leap_15.2) | Yes     | (r ) Yes  | No      | https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/network:/im:/signal/openSUSE_Leap_15.2/ 
 7 | packman             | packman                                             | Yes     | (r ) Yes  | Yes     | https://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/misc/packman/suse/openSUSE_Leap_15.2/ 
 8 | repo-non-oss        | Non-OSS Repository                                  | Yes     | (r ) Yes  | Yes     | http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/leap/15.2/repo/non-oss/ 
 9 | repo-oss            | Main Repository                                     | Yes     | (r ) Yes  | Yes     | http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/leap/15.2/repo/oss/ 
10 | repo-update         | Main Update Repository                              | Yes     | (r ) Yes  | Yes     | http://download.opensuse.org/update/leap/15.2/oss/ 
11 | repo-update-non-oss | Update Repository (Non-Oss)                         | Yes     | (r ) Yes  | Yes     | http://download.opensuse.org/update/leap/15.2/non-oss/ 


# zypper search --details biber 
Loading repository data... 
Reading installed packages... 
 
S  | Name              | Type    | Version                                 | Arch   | Repository 
---+-------------------+---------+-----------------------------------------+--------+---------------------------------------------------- 
   | perl-biber        | package | 2017.20170520.svn30357-lp152.15.2       | noarch | Main Repository 
i+ | texlive-biber     | package | 2021.186.2.16svn57273-lp152.182.1       | noarch | Build Environment for TeX Live (openSUSE_Leap_15.2) 
v  | texlive-biber     | package | 2017.133.2.7svn43910-lp152.7.3          | noarch | Main Repository 
i  | texlive-biber-bin | package | 2021.20210325.svn57273-lp152.20120819.1 | noarch | Build Environment for TeX Live (openSUSE_Leap_15.2) 
v  | texlive-biber-bin | package | 2017.20170520.svn42679-lp152.15.2       | noarch | Main Repository

As I understand the binaries of biber should come packed with all required dependencies.

Any idea anyone?

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Fixed. Had to disable the Publishing_Texlive repo and perform a vendor change to the standard OSS repo.

See:
https://forums.opensuse.org/showthread.php/556478-Biber-on-OpenSUSE-15-3?p=3046187#post3046187

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#biber
No biber available due to old perl installation

Must you run biber as root???

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I’m on Leap 15.2 and would like to use the newer version of texlive. The OSS repo still has texlive 2017. I needed to upgrade from texlive2017 to get the newer version of a package. Can’t remember which one it was.

I dont run biber as root.

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Well, you posted this:

That is why we feared you started it “as root”.

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Oh, that was a misleading “#”, sorry.

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Oops. :frowning:

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