Biblatex 3.6 on Ubuntu 16.04 with Texlive 2016

Question

I installed Tex Live 2016 on Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS using

sudo apt-get install texlive-full

Now References are not working. When I use biber in LYX 2.2.2, I get the following error:

Biber error: Error: Found biblatex control file version 3.1, expected version 3.2.

I tried

sudo apt-get install texlive-bibtex-extra biber

it says,

texlive-bibtex-extra is already the newest version (2016.20160520-1~ubuntu16.04.1york1).
biber is already the newest version (2.6.0-0york1~16.04).

I guess, I have old version of Biblatex. I could not figure out how to install the latest version of Biblatex. Any help will be highly appreciated. Thanks

This is not the standard 16.04 provided package; you are using a PPA (https://launchpad.net/~jonathonf/+archive/ubuntu/texlive-2016 I think). Probably the problem is over there. Try to contact the PPA owner. Biber works just ok in my (stock 16.04, so TexLive 2015) installation. Good luck! — Rmano, Dec 05 '16 at 09:47
This is definitely a problem with the PPA. I have used the same PPA and encountered the same problem. — edwinksl, Dec 05 '16 at 10:09

score 2 · Accepted Answer · edited Dec 05 '16 at 12:37

Use kpsewhich biblatex.sty to get /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/biblatex/biblatex.st‌y.
From SourceForge download biber v.2.6.
From SourceForge download biblatex v.3.6
Create two temp dirs: mkdir tempbb && mkdir tempbl

Uncompress biber-cygwin64.tar.gz and biblatex-3.6.tds.tgz to the temp directories:

tar -zxvf biber-cygwin64.tar.gz -C tempbb/
tar -zxvf biblatex-3.6.tds.tgz -C tempbl/

Move the contents of the files in the tempbl temp directory to /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/ thus:
```
sudo rsync -azvv tempbl/ /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/
```
Move the biber bin from your temp directory to /usr/share/texlive/ thus:
```
sudo rsync -azvv tempbl/ /usr/share/texlive/
```
Run mktexlsr
Test that everything is working fine.

Biblatex 3.6 on Ubuntu 16.04 with Texlive 2016

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