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In the accepted answer of this post, it says:

With TeX live you can (and should) normally install Biber via

tlmgr install biber

Now, when I try to it via the terminal, it tells me:

(running on Debian, switching to user mode!) TLPDB: not a directory, not loading: /home/user/texmf tlmgr: running in usermode, did you call 'tlmgr init-usertree'

What I found in this post on a related, though not exactly the same problem, is to run tlmgr init-usertree, but then I get the message

Command 'tlgmr' not found, did you mean:

command 'tlmgr' from deb texlive-base (2019.20200218-1)


Try: sudo apt install <deb name>

When I type sudo apt install tlgmr, I get the error sudo: tlgmr: command not found Any ideas on how to fix this?

Hermi
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The linked answer is correct for a 'vanilla' TeX live installed from TUG.org (How to install "vanilla" TeXLive on Debian or Ubuntu?). If you installed your TeX live via your Linux distribution and its package manager (apt, yum, ...), tlmgr is usually not usable (or should not be used, if it is usable). Instead you need to install LaTeX packages and support programs like Biber via your package manager.

In case of Biber and Debian that would be

sudo apt install biber

Note that if you use the TeX live from your Linux distribution's package manager, you may well lag behind recent developments a bit (for many non-rolling-release distros the TeX live gets frozen at some point and is never updated, so Ubuntu LTS versions end up with a pretty outdated TeX live after a while). A majority of users will not have an issue with that. But if you happen to need cutting edge features, your best bet is to get a 'vanilla' TeX live instead: How to install "vanilla" TeXLive on Debian or Ubuntu?.

moewe
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