[tex-live] Biber issue after update

[Paul Vojta]

On Tue, Mar 20, 2018 at 10:06:14PM +0000, Karl Berry wrote:
>     > Can't locate PAR.pm in @INC (you may need to install the PAR module)
> 
> It is true that Biber requires the PAR module.
> We can't feasibly provide it (or any other Perl modules) in TL.
> So, try running:
> 
> cpan install PAR
> 
> (Or whatever distro way you have to install CPAN modules.)
> 
> On older systems biber may not work at all, and nothing can be done
> about that. But I expect 5.26.0 should be ok. --hope this helps, karl.

I believe that biber comes with its own suite of packages, supposedly all that it
needs to run.  (Look in /tmp after running biber.)

So, it looks like a packaging/build error in biber.

Paul Vojta