diff --git a/texlive-bin/PKGBUILD b/texlive-bin/PKGBUILD
index 6e9b632c8..92bcc37d5 100644
--- a/texlive-bin/PKGBUILD
+++ b/texlive-bin/PKGBUILD
@@ -2,7 +2,8 @@
 
 pkgname=('texlive-bin' 'libsynctex')
 pkgver=2018.47465
-pkgrel=2
+pkgrel=3
+_biber_ver=2.10
 license=('GPL')
 arch=('x86_64')
 makedepends=('cairo' 'pixman' 'graphite' 't1lib' 'gd' 'poppler'
@@ -11,15 +12,20 @@ makedepends=('cairo' 'pixman' 'graphite' 't1lib' 'gd' 'poppler'
              'perl' 'clisp' 'ffcall')
 url='http://tug.org/texlive/'
 source=("https://sources.archlinux.org/other/texlive/texlive-bin-source-${pkgver}.tar.xz"
+        "http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/biblatex-biber/biblatex-biber/${_biber_ver}/binaries/Linux/biber-linux_x86_64.tar.gz"
         "texlive-poppler-0.67.patch"
         "freetype-pkgconfig.patch"
         "synctex-missing-header.patch")
+noextract=(biber-linux_x86_64.tar.gz)
 sha256sums=('06d7a1c939cf7d6035850cefca1d01898ae51a879e20db684a202fd507a0cae5'
+            'ddc6d663b9eb3ac109e89c668c381b57e636e223b983b98588b1bb6829c81fc8'
             '1c444526e3967f82d68a003526b332e0401db7825e22b5542e6cd04f0e688310'
             'bed44f4ccda369410e90eac527cf44b8c1afda7d987ae521b4fd5edb425eef3e'
             'b6c81eb091b5910226e0359768edd178680debee56b63ab0a3753c3429c28ab0')
 
 prepare() {
+    tar xf biber-linux_x86_64.tar.gz
+    
     cd "$srcdir/source"
 
     # Synctex "make install" misses synctex_version.h
@@ -132,6 +138,9 @@ package_texlive-bin() {
    # fixes for xindy
    find utils/xindy -name Makefile -exec sed -i -e "s|^prefix =.\+$|prefix = $pkgdir/usr|" -e "s|^mandir =.\+$|mandir = \${prefix}/share/man|" -e "s|^datadir =.\+$|datadir = \${datarootdir}/texmf|" -e "s|^docdir =.\+$|docdir = \${datadir}/doc/xindy|" '{}' \;
 
+   ## install biber
+   install -m755 "${srcdir}"/biber "${pkgdir}/usr/bin/biber"
+
    echo "-------------------------------------------------------"
    echo "--> Proceeding with make install ..."
    echo "-------------------------------------------------------"