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w.brian
w.brian

Reputation: 17397

Does cargo install have an equivalent update command?

I used cargo install to globally install a package, such as rustfmt or racer.

How can I update the installed package without first deleting it ( cargo uninstall) and then running cargo install again.

Is there an update command?

Upvotes: 187

Views: 68609

Answers (6)

Vatsal Gupta
Vatsal Gupta

Reputation: 1

Without any unexpected error if there are no crates installed.

Use:

cargo install --list | grep -E '^[a-z0-9_-]+ v[0-9.]+:$' | cut -f1 -d' ' | xargs cargo install

Upvotes: 0

w.brian
w.brian

Reputation: 17397

A solution I've found is to add the --force flag to the install command. For example cargo install --force clippy. This will effectively re-install the latest version.

⚠️ NOTE: Using the --force parameter is no longer necessary in newer versions of the cargo CLI.

Upvotes: 30

набиячлэвэли
набиячлэвэли

Reputation: 4677

There is no such command in vanilla cargo (well, there's cargo install but that's for dependencies), but since cargo supports third-party subcommands there is an answer: the cargo-update crate.

Install as usual with

cargo install cargo-update

then use

cargo install-update -a

to update all installed packages, for more usage information and examples see the cargo install-update manpage.

Disclaimer: am author

Upvotes: 251

Ahmad Ismail
Ahmad Ismail

Reputation: 13862

I use the command

cargo install --locked $(cat $CARGO_HOME/.crates2.json | jq -r '.installs | keys[] | split(" ")[0]')

You need jq to run this command. I use this command to reliably get the installed packages.

Please note that i have used --locked here. Without --locked few builds may fail. For example, as of today, if you use cargo install-update -a, you will get a message like "Failed to update pueue, ripgrep_all." (Here, replace pueue, ripgrep_all with packages that need --locked).

Another thing is, we may have some dependencies to update the installed package. For that i made a function which will first get the dependencies then update the installed package.

Here is a sample function for fish shell.

function rust_update_packages
    # cargo install --locked ripgrep_all
    # cargo install --locked pueue
    # Alacritty Dependencies
    apt install -y cmake pkg-config libfreetype6-dev libfontconfig1-dev libxcb-xfixes0-dev libxkbcommon-dev python3
    cargo install --locked $(cat $CARGO_HOME/.crates2.json | jq -r '.installs | keys[] | split(" ")[0]')
end

For other shell, only the function syntax will change, the body of the function will remain same.

Upvotes: 1

David Bailey
David Bailey

Reputation: 1091

Here is a one-liner to update all installed Cargo crates, except those installed from a local folder:

cargo install $(cargo install --list | egrep '^[a-z0-9_-]+ v[0-9.]+:$' | cut -f1 -d' ')

Explanation:

  • List installed packages
  • Filter to lines which contain package names and versions, and exclude ones with filesystem paths
  • Cut those lines to only include the package name
  • cargo install with the resulting package names

Upvotes: 33

Nicolai Fröhlich
Nicolai Fröhlich

Reputation: 52493

As of Rust 1.41.0, you can use the following command to update crates to their latest version:

cargo install <crate>

This came from pull request #6798 (Add install-upgrade) and was stabilized in #7560 (Stabilize install-upgrade).

How does it work?

Instead of failing when cargo install detects a package is already installed, it will upgrade if the versions don't match, or do nothing (exit 0) if it is considered "up-to-date".

Forcing an upgrade / re-installation

The following command will always uninstall, download and compile the latest version of the crate - even if there's no newer version available. Under normal circumstances the install-upgrade feature should be preferred as it does save time and bandwidth if there's no new version of the crate.

cargo install --force <crate>

Documentation

Further information can be found in the GitHub issue rust-lang/cargo#6797 and in the official documentation chapter.

Upvotes: 110

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