Biber cannot find a shared library

Nicola Talbot lists at dickimaw-books.com
Thu Mar 7 12:05:03 CET 2024


On 06/03/2024 19:24, Wierdl Máté wrote:
> Hello, I have Texlive 2023 updated on a Fedora Linux 39 system.  The biber
> coming with Texlive cannot find a shared library:
> 
> $ which biber
> ~/bin/biber
> $ biber main
> biber: error while loading shared libraries: libnsl.so.1: cannot open
> shared object file: No such file or directory

I recently installed TeX Live and Fedora 39 on a new laptop, and biber 
was missing two shared libraries: libnsl, which is listed by dnf as 
legacy support only, but can still be installed, and libcrypt which 
isn't available with dnf, but installing libxcrypt-compat worked.

Regards
Nicola Talbot


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