General ⇒ package biblatex error: command smartcite undefined

[rrlangly]

Just starting out with Latex and having issues, so I made the following minimum test. Below is my test.tex doc, then the .bib file, then below that is what I receive when running latex on the file.

I think something has to do with the fact that I don't have biber installed, and yet I thought by telling the backend to be bibtex, that this would work. (Gentoo has lots of masked packages just to get biber installed.)

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\documentclass[a4paper, 12pt]{article}
\title{My Paper}
\author{Me}
\date{2015-10-11}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[american]{babel}
\usepackage{csquotes}
\usepackage[backend=bibtex,style=historian]{biblatex}
\bibliography{test}
\usepackage{setspace}

\begin{document}
\pagenumbering{gobble}
\maketitle
\newpage
\pagenumbering{arabic}
\newpage

\paragraph{Introdution}
Trying to work a biblatex example here \autocite[1]{Author:1}.

\printbibliography

\end{document}

The test.bib file.

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@book{Author:1,
    author = {Doe, John},
    title = {Book Title},
    publisher = {Mr. Publisher},
    address = {SomeplaceWhere},
    year = {2007}
    pages = {2}
}

And when I run latex on this test.tex file, I am receiving the following errors and can't get rid of the warnings.

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 $ latex test
This is pdfTeX, Version 3.14159265-2.6-1.40.15 (TeX Live 2014) (preloaded format=latex)
 restricted \write18 enabled.
entering extended mode
(./test.tex
LaTeX2e <2014/05/01>
Babel <3.9l> and hyphenation patterns for 2 languages loaded.
(/usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/article.cls
Document Class: article 2007/10/19 v1.4h Standard LaTeX document class
(/usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/size12.clo))
(/usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/inputenc.sty
(/usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/utf8.def
(/usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/t1enc.dfu)
(/usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/ot1enc.dfu)
(/usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/omsenc.dfu)))
(/usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/generic/babel/babel.sty
(/usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/generic/babel-english/english.ldf
(/usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/generic/babel/babel.def)))
(/usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/latex/csquotes/csquotes.sty
(/usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/latex/etoolbox/etoolbox.sty
(/usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/latex/etex-pkg/etex.sty))
(/usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/latex/graphics/keyval.sty)
(/usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/latex/csquotes/csquotes.def)
(/usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/latex/csquotes/csquotes.cfg))
(/usr/share/texmf-site/tex/latex/biblatex/biblatex.sty
(/usr/share/texmf-site/tex/latex/biblatex/biblatex1.sty
(/usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/latex/logreq/logreq.sty
(/usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/latex/logreq/logreq.def))
(/usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/ifthen.sty)
(/usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/latex/url/url.sty)
(/usr/share/texmf-site/tex/latex/biblatex/blx-compat.def)
(/usr/share/texmf-site/tex/latex/biblatex/biblatex.def)
(/usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/latex/biblatex-historian/historian.bbx
(/usr/share/texmf-site/tex/latex/biblatex/bbx/standard.bbx))
(/usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/latex/biblatex-historian/historian.cbx

Package biblatex Warning: Macro 'footcite:shorthand' already defined.
(biblatex)                Using \renewbibmacro.


Package biblatex Warning: Macro 'footcite:ibid' already defined.
(biblatex)                Using \renewbibmacro.

) (/usr/share/texmf-site/tex/latex/biblatex/biblatex.cfg)))
(/usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/latex/setspace/setspace.sty)
(/usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/latex/biblatex-historian/historian.lbx
(/usr/share/texmf-site/tex/latex/biblatex/lbx/american.lbx
(/usr/share/texmf-site/tex/latex/biblatex/lbx/english.lbx))) (./test.aux)

Package biblatex Warning: Data encoding is 'utf8'.
(biblatex)                Use backend=biber.

(./test.bbl) [1]

! Package biblatex Error: Command '\smartcite' undefined.

See the biblatex package documentation for explanation.
Type  H <return>  for immediate help.
 ...                                              
                                                  
l.21 ...ex example here \autocite[1]{Author:1}.
                                                  
? 

LaTeX Warning: Empty bibliography on input line 23.

[1] (./test.aux) )
Output written on test.dvi (2 pages, 568 bytes).
Transcript written on test.log.

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi,

welcome to the forum!

Running biber is a recommendation, since biber is utf8 capable, BibTeX is not. And you operating system file encoding is utf8. This does not need to matter, as long as you use just ASCII characters in the bibliography.

However, you need to run BibTeX, like "bibtex test" on your file (no file name extension).

Stefan

[Johannes_B]

Welcome,

is it possible that your biblatex version is just freakishly old?

[Stefan Kottwitz]

TeX Live 2014 (from the log file) sounds not very old. Btw. if you would add the command \listfiles, then you would see all package versions in the log file.

Stefan

[Johannes_B]

biblatex is loaded from /usr/share/texmf-site/tex/latex/biblatex/biblatex.sty, but the rest comes from /usr/share/texmf-dist/. Might be a version not maintained by tlmgr.