Rust is a very young and very modern language. It helps you write faster, more reliable software. The goal for Rust is to create a highly concurrent, safe and perfomant system.
Installation
The first step we will download Rust through rustup, a command line tool for managing Rust versions and associated tools.
Installing rustup on Linux or macos
Open your terminal and run the following command
$ curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 https://sh.rustup.rs -sSf | sh
The command downloads a script and starts the installation of the rustup tool, which installs the latest stable version of Rust.
If the install is successful the following line will appear:
Rust is installed now. Great!
You will also need a linker, which is a program that Rust uses to join its compiled outputs into one file. If you use Ubuntu, you can install the build-essential package.
Installing rustup on Windows
On windows, go to https://www.rust-lang.org/tools/install and follow the instructions for installing Rust. You will need the MSVC build tools for Visual Studio 2013 or later. When asked which workloads to install, include:
- “Desktop Development with C++”
- The Windows 10 or 11 SDK
- The English language pack component, along with any other language pack of your choosing
Troubleshooting
To check whether you have Rust installed correctly, open a shell and enter this line:
rustc --version
You should see the version number, commit hash, and commit date for the latest stable version that has been released, in the following format:
rustc x.y.z (abcabcabc yyyy-mm-dd)
If you see this information, you have installed Rust successfully! If you don’t see this information, check that Rust is in your PATH system variable as follows.
In Windows CMD, use:
> echo %PATH%
In PowerShell, use:
> echo $env:Path
In Linux and macOS, use:
$ echo $PATH
Updating and Uninstalling
Once Rust is installed via rustup, updating to a newly released version is easy. From your shell, run the following update script:
rustup update
To uninstall Rust and rustup, run the following uninstall script from your shell:
rustup self uninstall
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