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- 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 However, this gets you an outdated Rust version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


```shell
sudo apt install cargo rust-src rustfmt
sudo apt install rustup
```

- On macOS, you can use [Homebrew](https://brew.sh/) to install Rust, but this
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