I think it would be better to put it in /usr/local/bin. Restart and it will work.
2016-05-11 10:50 GMT+02:00 Wolfgang Engelmann <engelm...@uni-tuebingen.de>: > > > On 11.05.2016 10:46, Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: > >> I downloaded the latest biber-linux_x86_64.tar.gz from SourceForge and >> extracted it in my /home/Downloads/ >> Can it remain there or where should it better be? Is a texhash sufficient >> to make it available to lyx? >> Wolfgang >> > The old biber is at > which biber > /usr/bin/biber > Could I just replace it with the ne one? > Wolfgang >