Ubuntu Manpage: cargo-install — Build and install a Rust binary

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NAME

       cargo-install — Build and install a Rust binary

SYNOPSIS

       cargo install [options] crate[@version]…
       cargo install [options] --path path
       cargo install [options] --git url [crate…]
       cargo install [options] --list

DESCRIPTION

       This command manages Cargo’s local set of installed binary crates. Only packages which
       have executable [[bin]] or [[example]] targets can be installed, and all executables are
       installed into the installation root’s bin folder. By default only binaries, not examples,
       are installed.

       The installation root is determined, in order of precedence:

       •  --root option

       •  CARGO_INSTALL_ROOT environment variable

       •  install.root Cargo config value <https://doc.rust-lang.org/cargo/reference/config.html>

       •  CARGO_HOME environment variable

       •  $HOME/.cargo

       There are multiple sources from which a crate can be installed. The default location is
       crates.io but the --git, --path, and --registry flags can change this source. If the
       source contains more than one package (such as crates.io or a git repository with multiple
       crates) the crate argument is required to indicate which crate should be installed.

       Crates from crates.io can optionally specify the version they wish to install via the
       --version flags, and similarly packages from git repositories can optionally specify the
       branch, tag, or revision that should be installed. If a crate has multiple binaries, the
       --bin argument can selectively install only one of them, and if you’d rather install
       examples the --example argument can be used as well.

       If the package is already installed, Cargo will reinstall it if the installed version does
       not appear to be up-to-date. If any of the following values change, then Cargo will
       reinstall the package:

       •  The package version and source.

       •  The set of binary names installed.

       •  The chosen features.

       •  The profile (--profile).

       •  The target (--target).

       Installing with --path will always build and install, unless there are conflicting
       binaries from another package. The --force flag may be used to force Cargo to always
       reinstall the package.

       If the source is crates.io or --git then by default the crate will be built in a temporary
       target directory. To avoid this, the target directory can be specified by setting the
       CARGO_TARGET_DIR environment variable to a relative path. In particular, this can be
       useful for caching build artifacts on continuous integration systems.

   Dealing with the Lockfile
       By default, the Cargo.lock file that is included with the package will be ignored. This
       means that Cargo will recompute which versions of dependencies to use, possibly using
       newer versions that have been released since the package was published. The --locked flag
       can be used to force Cargo to use the packaged Cargo.lock file if it is available. This
       may be useful for ensuring reproducible builds, to use the exact same set of dependencies
       that were available when the package was published. It may also be useful if a newer
       version of a dependency is published that no longer builds on your system, or has other
       problems. The downside to using --locked is that you will not receive any fixes or updates
       to any dependency. Note that Cargo did not start publishing Cargo.lock files until version
       1.37, which means packages published with prior versions will not have a Cargo.lock file
       available.

   Configuration Discovery
       This command operates on system or user level, not project level. This means that the
       local configuration discovery
       <https://doc.rust-lang.org/cargo/reference/config.html#hierarchical-structure> is ignored.
       Instead, the configuration discovery begins at $CARGO_HOME/config.toml. If the package is
       installed with --path $PATH, the local configuration will be used, beginning discovery at
       $PATH/.cargo/config.toml.

OPTIONS

Install Options
--vers version, --version version
Specify a version to install. This may be a version requirement
<https://doc.rust-lang.org/cargo/reference/specifying-dependencies.html>, like ~1.2,
to have Cargo select the newest version from the given requirement. If the version
does not have a requirement operator (such as ^ or ~), then it must be in the form
MAJOR.MINOR.PATCH, and will install exactly that version; it is not treated as a caret
requirement like Cargo dependencies are.

--git url
Git URL to install the specified crate from.

--branch branch
Branch to use when installing from git.

--tag tag
Tag to use when installing from git.

--rev sha
Specific commit to use when installing from git.

--path path
Filesystem path to local crate to install.

--list
List all installed packages and their versions.

-f, --force
Force overwriting existing crates or binaries. This can be used if a package has
installed a binary with the same name as another package. This is also useful if
something has changed on the system that you want to rebuild with, such as a newer
version of rustc.

--no-track
By default, Cargo keeps track of the installed packages with a metadata file stored in
the installation root directory. This flag tells Cargo not to use or create that file.
With this flag, Cargo will refuse to overwrite any existing files unless the --force
flag is used. This also disables Cargo’s ability to protect against multiple
concurrent invocations of Cargo installing at the same time.

--bin name…
Install only the specified binary.

--bins
Install all binaries. This is the default behavior.

--example name…
Install only the specified example.

--examples
Install all examples.

--root dir
Directory to install packages into.

--registry registry
Name of the registry to use. Registry names are defined in Cargo config files
<https://doc.rust-lang.org/cargo/reference/config.html>. If not specified, the default
registry is used, which is defined by the registry.default config key which defaults
to crates-io.

--index index
The URL of the registry index to use.

Feature Selection
The feature flags allow you to control which features are enabled. When no feature options
are given, the default feature is activated for every selected package.

See the features documentation
<https://doc.rust-lang.org/cargo/reference/features.html#command-line-feature-options> for
more details.

-F features, --features features
Space or comma separated list of features to activate. Features of workspace members
may be enabled with package-name/feature-name syntax. This flag may be specified
multiple times, which enables all specified features.

--all-features
Activate all available features of all selected packages.

--no-default-features
Do not activate the default feature of the selected packages.

Compilation Options
--target triple
Install for the given architecture. The default is the host architecture. The general
format of the triple is <arch><sub>-<vendor>-<sys>-<abi>. Run rustc --print
target-list for a list of supported targets.

This may also be specified with the build.target config value
<https://doc.rust-lang.org/cargo/reference/config.html>.

Note that specifying this flag makes Cargo run in a different mode where the target
artifacts are placed in a separate directory. See the build cache
<https://doc.rust-lang.org/cargo/guide/build-cache.html> documentation for more
details.

--target-dir directory
Directory for all generated artifacts and intermediate files. May also be specified
with the CARGO_TARGET_DIR environment variable, or the build.target-dir config value
<https://doc.rust-lang.org/cargo/reference/config.html>. Defaults to a new temporary
folder located in the temporary directory of the platform.

When using --path, by default it will use target directory in the workspace of the
local crate unless --target-dir is specified.

--debug
Build with the dev profile instead of the release profile. See also the --profile
option for choosing a specific profile by name.

--profile name
Install with the given profile. See the reference
<https://doc.rust-lang.org/cargo/reference/profiles.html> for more details on
profiles.

--ignore-rust-version
Install the target even if the selected Rust compiler is older than the required Rust
version as configured in the project’s rust-version field.

--timings=fmts
Output information how long each compilation takes, and track concurrency information
over time. Accepts an optional comma-separated list of output formats; --timings
without an argument will default to --timings=html. Specifying an output format
(rather than the default) is unstable and requires -Zunstable-options. Valid output
formats:

• html (unstable, requires -Zunstable-options): Write a human-readable file
cargo-timing.html to the target/cargo-timings directory with a report of the
compilation. Also write a report to the same directory with a timestamp in the
filename if you want to look at older runs. HTML output is suitable for human
consumption only, and does not provide machine-readable timing data.

• json (unstable, requires -Zunstable-options): Emit machine-readable JSON
information about timing information.

Manifest Options
--frozen, --locked
Either of these flags requires that the Cargo.lock file is up-to-date. If the lock
file is missing, or it needs to be updated, Cargo will exit with an error. The
--frozen flag also prevents Cargo from attempting to access the network to determine
if it is out-of-date.

These may be used in environments where you want to assert that the Cargo.lock file is
up-to-date (such as a CI build) or want to avoid network access.

--offline
Prevents Cargo from accessing the network for any reason. Without this flag, Cargo
will stop with an error if it needs to access the network and the network is not
available. With this flag, Cargo will attempt to proceed without the network if
possible.

Beware that this may result in different dependency resolution than online mode. Cargo
will restrict itself to crates that are downloaded locally, even if there might be a
newer version as indicated in the local copy of the index. See the cargo-fetch(1)
command to download dependencies before going offline.

May also be specified with the net.offline config value
<https://doc.rust-lang.org/cargo/reference/config.html>.

Miscellaneous Options
-j N, --jobs N
Number of parallel jobs to run. May also be specified with the build.jobs config value
<https://doc.rust-lang.org/cargo/reference/config.html>. Defaults to the number of
logical CPUs. If negative, it sets the maximum number of parallel jobs to the number
of logical CPUs plus provided value. If a string default is provided, it sets the
value back to defaults. Should not be 0.

--keep-going
Build as many crates in the dependency graph as possible, rather than aborting the
build on the first one that fails to build.

For example if the current package depends on dependencies fails and works, one of
which fails to build, cargo install -j1 may or may not build the one that succeeds
(depending on which one of the two builds Cargo picked to run first), whereas cargo
install -j1 --keep-going would definitely run both builds, even if the one run first
fails.

Display Options
-v, --verbose
Use verbose output. May be specified twice for “very verbose” output which includes
extra output such as dependency warnings and build script output. May also be
specified with the term.verbose config value
<https://doc.rust-lang.org/cargo/reference/config.html>.

-q, --quiet
Do not print cargo log messages. May also be specified with the term.quiet config
value <https://doc.rust-lang.org/cargo/reference/config.html>.

--color when
Control when colored output is used. Valid values:

• auto (default): Automatically detect if color support is available on the terminal.

• always: Always display colors.

• never: Never display colors.

May also be specified with the term.color config value
<https://doc.rust-lang.org/cargo/reference/config.html>.

--message-format fmt
The output format for diagnostic messages. Can be specified multiple times and
consists of comma-separated values. Valid values:

• human (default): Display in a human-readable text format. Conflicts with short and
json.

• short: Emit shorter, human-readable text messages. Conflicts with human and json.

• json: Emit JSON messages to stdout. See the reference
<https://doc.rust-lang.org/cargo/reference/external-tools.html#json-messages> for
more details. Conflicts with human and short.

• json-diagnostic-short: Ensure the rendered field of JSON messages contains the
“short” rendering from rustc. Cannot be used with human or short.

• json-diagnostic-rendered-ansi: Ensure the rendered field of JSON messages contains
embedded ANSI color codes for respecting rustc’s default color scheme. Cannot be
used with human or short.

• json-render-diagnostics: Instruct Cargo to not include rustc diagnostics in JSON
messages printed, but instead Cargo itself should render the JSON diagnostics
coming from rustc. Cargo’s own JSON diagnostics and others coming from rustc are
still emitted. Cannot be used with human or short.

Common Options
+toolchain
If Cargo has been installed with rustup, and the first argument to cargo begins with
+, it will be interpreted as a rustup toolchain name (such as +stable or +nightly).
See the rustup documentation <https://rust-lang.github.io/rustup/overrides.html> for
more information about how toolchain overrides work.

--config KEY=VALUE or PATH
Overrides a Cargo configuration value. The argument should be in TOML syntax of
KEY=VALUE, or provided as a path to an extra configuration file. This flag may be
specified multiple times. See the command-line overrides section
<https://doc.rust-lang.org/cargo/reference/config.html#command-line-overrides> for
more information.

-C PATH
Changes the current working directory before executing any specified operations. This
affects things like where cargo looks by default for the project manifest
(Cargo.toml), as well as the directories searched for discovering .cargo/config.toml,
for example. This option must appear before the command name, for example cargo -C
path/to/my-project build.

This option is only available on the nightly channel
<https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/appendix-07-nightly-rust.html> and requires the -Z
unstable-options flag to enable (see #10098
<https://github.com/rust-lang/cargo/issues/10098>).

-h, --help
Prints help information.

-Z flag
Unstable (nightly-only) flags to Cargo. Run cargo -Z help for details.

ENVIRONMENT

       See the reference <https://doc.rust-lang.org/cargo/reference/environment-variables.html>
       for details on environment variables that Cargo reads.

EXIT STATUS

       •  0: Cargo succeeded.

       •  101: Cargo failed to complete.

EXAMPLES

        1. Install or upgrade a package from crates.io:

               cargo install ripgrep

        2. Install or reinstall the package in the current directory:

               cargo install --path .

        3. View the list of installed packages:

               cargo install --list