BibTeX, biblatex and biber ⇒ biblatex | Bibliography Error

[ahmedlasheen]

can you told me which folder or file specufically i have to download ?
http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/biblio/bibtex/
there are alot of things

[localghost]

Not BibTeX, it's biblatex! Get the ZIP archive.

[ahmedlasheen]

well i read the steps in the README and after making texhash
i compiled the file and it give me the following error

! LaTeX Error: File `logreq.sty' not found.

[localghost]

Same procedure as with biblatex. Download and unpack. I hope that for the next missing package the process is clear now.

[ahmedlasheen]

thanks alot ,
i have also installed some packages like etoolbox ,but still have error
the last one is
Package biblatex Warning: File 'biblography.bbl' created by wrong version.
i am asking what is the minimal example that working with texlive 2010?How do people write the bibliography with texlive 2010?
second, when the new texlive 2011 appear?
thanks alot for your help.

[philosopher]

I just ran into the same thing a couple of days ago (the \addbibresource command threw an error). I'm using TexLive 2010 on Mac OS X. I asked the TeX Live Utility (which was installed along with TeXLive) to update its packages, it did, and now biblatex seems to work as it's supposed to. (Sorry, I don't know whether this is a Mac-only thing.)

[ahmedlasheen]

how do you do update the biblatex? the tlmgr utility is frozen know.

[philosopher]

Here is the complete documentation for tlmgr, including how to update some or all packages, or to update tlmgr itself:

http://www.tug.org/texlive/doc/tlmgr.html

[ahmedlasheen]

the texlive is now frozen, i cannot update
please read the following
http://www.latex-community.org/forum/vi ... f5f#p52656

[philosopher]

I did update my installation a couple of days ago using Tex Utility on Mac, which uses tlmgr. I think the "TeX Live 2010 is frozen forever and will no longer be updated" applies to the programs and packages in TeX Live, not to your installation. If that's right, then that leaves

(a) your system is up-to-date, and something else is causing the problem using biblatex;

(b) your system is not up-to-date, and there's something wrong with what your tlmgr is doing.

I don't have any suggestions for (b). For (a), I know you have tried some minimal working examples, but perhaps if you work up from something very simple. This is the first one I got to work:

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\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[bibstyle=authoryear,style=authoryear,natbib=true]{biblatex}
\addbibresource{your.bib}
\begin{document}
\citep{yourcitekey:_article}
Now is the time for all the good stuff to happen.
\printbibliography
\end{document}

I've changed your.bib and yourcitekey:_article from my values. In my case the your.bib is in the local texmf tree (there's a symbolic link under ~/Library/texmf/bibtex/bib/ to the actual bibliography file).