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[Jeffrey Finkelstein <1565842@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

** Description changed:

- It seems you can either install texlive-bibtex-extra or biber.
- 
- I expected to be able to install both.
+ It seems you can either install either texlive-bibtex-extra or biber but
+ not both. However, both packages are required in order to use biber for
+ bibliography management when compiling a LaTeX document.
  
  sudo apt-get install texlive-bibtex-extra biber
  Reading package lists... Done
  Building dependency tree
  Reading state information... Done
  texlive-bibtex-extra is already the newest version (2015.20160320-1).
  Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
  requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
  distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
  or been moved out of Incoming.
  The following information may help to resolve the situation:
  
  The following packages have unmet dependencies.
   texlive-bibtex-extra : Breaks: biber (< 2.4) but 2.3-1 is to be installed
  E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
  
  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
  Package: biber (not installed)
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-16.32-generic 4.4.6
  Uname: Linux 4.4.0-16-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu1
  Architecture: amd64
  CurrentDesktop: GNOME
  Date: Mon Apr  4 17:07:58 2016
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2015-12-02 (124 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-GNOME 16.04 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Alpha amd64 (20151027)
  SourcePackage: biber
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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Title:
  biber removes texlive-bibtex-extra

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