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Now that there is a `rustup` package, we can take away the scary language and ask people to install that. This has the advantage that people get a trusted tool to download the latest Rust compiler.
djmitche
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Jun 19, 2025
| - On Debian/Ubuntu, you can also install Cargo, the Rust source and the | ||
| [Rust formatter] via `apt`. However, this gets you an outdated Rust version | ||
| and may lead to unexpected behavior. The command would be: | ||
| - On Debian/Ubuntu, you can install `rustup` via `apt`: |
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Is there a step after this, to run rustup, or does that occur automatically?
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once rustup is installed, this does not yet have a default toolchain installed. You could append rustup default stable to achieve that goal. And maybe link to https://wiki.debian.org/Rust (Using crates from the Internet (with rustup))
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additional hint: if you installed via some other method into your home directory already you might want to use rustup self uninstall to avoid using the manually installed version - otherwise this might be unexpected
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Now that there is a
rustuppackage, we can take away the scary language and ask people to install that. This has the advantage that people get a trusted tool to download the latest Rust compiler.