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I tried
/usr/local/share/texmf/
and also
/usr/share/texmf-texlive/

It didn't work - texhash appeared to work, but pdflatex still didn't find the stuff. I therefore gave up on the semiauto installation, got biblatex-1.1a.tar.gz and this installed fine manually. A bit laborious though, as per README ...

I removed biblatex with the KPackageKit and tried the semiautomatic installation of 1.1a; despite running texhash now pdflatex can't find biblatex.sty at all...
:-! M.

Thanks - you are right, biblatex is only 0.8i :
...
etex.sty 1998/03/26 v2.0 eTeX basic definition package (PEB)
csquotes.def 2009/09/23 v4.4c csquotes generic definitions
csquotes.cfg 2009/05/30 v4.4 csquotes configuration
biblatex.sty 2009/09/20 v0.8i programmable bibliographies
biblatex.def 2009 ...

Hello,
I hope I'm asking at the right place ... I've been desperately trying to use biblatex-apa. I can use successfully:
usepackage[style=numeric-comp,bibstyle=numeric,hyperref=true,%
backref=false,sorting=none,abbreviate=true]{biblatex}

... but all attempts to use:
usepackage[american]{babel ...