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by jpgvm 4372 days ago
I would really love to see some docs on how to actually install and get started with Cargo.

It doesn't ship with Rust and the docs on GitHub and crates.io are not very enlightening.
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wunki 4372 days ago
This was how I installed it (Mac):

  1) Install latest version of Rust found here: http://www.rust-lang.org
  2) git clone --recursive git@github.com:rust-lang/cargo.git
  3) make
  4) make install (could be that sudo is needed for you)
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buster 4372 days ago
I'm putting rust in $HOME/bin (and other self compiled software). You can change the default installation from /usr/local by running

  DESTDIR=$HOME make install
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btd 4371 days ago
There is no brew formula?
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aroch 4371 days ago
For rust? There is...cargo not so much

aroch:~/staging/|⇒ brew info rust

rust: stable 0.10 (bottled), HEAD

http://www.rust-lang.org/

/usr/local/Cellar/rust/0.10 (74 files, 174M) *

  Poured from bottle
From: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew/commits/master/Library/...

aroch:~/staging/|⇒ brew info cargo

Error: No available formula for cargo

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sigzero 4371 days ago
Rust has a brew package. Cargo is new so it may be a day or three before it gets out there too.
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cevn 4371 days ago
Hmm, well, rust's brew seems a little outdated (0.10), so if you are intent on using Cargo soon, I would recommend on building rust yourself or grabbing a new binary from their website.
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sanderjd 4371 days ago
There is a homebrew-cask of Rust's nightly binary. I think this should work:

  brew tap caskroom/cask
  brew install brew-cask
  brew tap caskroom/versions
  brew cask install rust-nightly
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kolev 4371 days ago
Stuff being either in Cask or Homebrew is just terrible. Homebrew also has a versions tap. Those two projects should combine efforts and remove ambiguity.
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steveklabnik 4371 days ago
Yesterday started my contract with Mozilla to write documentation. Today, I'm starting on re-writing the tutorial: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/15131 (apparently, bors is a bit backed up)

The new tutorial will be based around 'real' Rust development, and so will assume Cargo.

That said, http://crates.io/ should have install instructions on the site. I'll open a ticket and get on that.

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