How to install latest Rust on Linux

This article guides you on how to install the latest Rust programing language on a Linux system. Whether it is your desktop or server. The guide universally works with all Linux distributions so it doesn’t matter whether you use Ubuntu, CentOS, Fedora, RHEL, Arch, or any other. Just follow along and you will be able to install the latest Rust programing language build on your Linux system.

Rust is a general-purpose, cross-platform program language. It supports multi-paradigm and is designed for performance, safety, and concurrency. Rust is blazingly fast and memory-efficient with no runtime or garbage collector, it is best suited for performance-critical services and can run on embedded devices.

The language is used by hundreds of companies around the world. Rust makes the production fast and low-resource intensive while providing cross-platform solutions. Rust is being used from startups to large companies.

Some of the famous companies that love 😍 Rust are Dropbox, Firefox, Google, and Cloudflare.

Now let’s see, how to get this little bad boy up and running on your Linux system 🐧.

Installing Rust programing language on Linux

Before installing Rust on your Linux system, you need to get some of the tools 🛠️ that will make the installation processing effortless. However, there are stronger chances that your system might already have these tools but anyway here is how you can get them.

For Ubuntu, Debian and their derivatives

sudo apt-get install curl cmake

For Fedora, RHEL, CentOS, Rocky Linux

sudo dnf install curl cmake

Note: If dnf is not found then it can also be installed.

sudo yum install dnf

For Arch, Manjaro or their derivatives

sudo pacman -S curl cmake

Now it’s time to get Rust on your Linux

To install rust, we will be using rustup. It is a script that makes Rust installation a breeze. To get the script, we first need to download it with curl then execute it to install Rust.

curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSf https://sh.rustup.rs | sh

FYI: This script works not only on Linux but on macOS and other Unix-like OS as well.

While installing the Rust, you will come across installation options, simply choose the 1st option and hit enter to continue.

After it completes the installation, you need to make the system aware of the Rust so source the Rust environment variable configurations.

source $HOME/.cargo/env

source $HOME/.bashrc  // This is only for bash shell users 

source $HOME/.profile

Now you can verify by executing any Rust-related command.

rustc --version

Also read: Installing applications in Linux | Complete guide

Conclusion

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