Biber not working

[kage-chan]

Hi,

I've been playing around with the toolkit lately, and for containers created with the toolkit it seems like biber is not working. I also found a solution, please consider including it as fix into future versions.

MWE:

\documentclass[]{article}

\usepackage[autostyle]{csquotes}

\usepackage[
    backend=biber,
    style=authoryear-icomp,
    sortlocale=de_DE,
    natbib=true,
    url=false, 
    doi=true,
    eprint=false
]{biblatex}
\addbibresource{biblatex-examples.bib}

\usepackage[]{hyperref}
\hypersetup{
    colorlinks=true,
}

%% ##############################
\begin{document}
    Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet~\citep{kastenholz}.
    At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum~\citet{sigfridsson}.
    \printbibliography 
\end{document}

biblatex-examples.bib is the example file coming with TeXlive 2024, you can also find it here.

This does work with my local vscode setup, but not with overleaf instances created with the toolkit. However, it will work also with said overleaf instance, if the following command is executed inside the container first: ln -s /usr/local/texlive/2024/bin/x86_64-linux/biber /usr/local/bin/biber

Now if all cached files are cleared and the document is compiled again it'll work as expected.

References:

• Example taken from solution in this thread
• Solution was found in this thread

[jn9702]

That's the solution. Thank you so much.

BTW I think they forgot to run tlmgr path add before they release the upate 5.3.1

[MeesMeijer]

You are the best, this worked instantly

[xbais]

Thanks a lot @kage-chan , @jn9702 , you just saved the day for me!!