Rust for C-Programmers

23.12 Installing Binary Application Packages

You can install published application crates (that provide binaries) with:

cargo install <crate_name>

Cargo downloads, compiles, and places the binary in ~/.cargo/bin by default. Make sure ~/.cargo/bin is in your PATH. For instance:

cargo install ripgrep

Now you can run rg (ripgrep’s command) directly from any directory.