Where does rustup install itself to?

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Solution 1

By default, rustup is also installed to your home directory:

$ which rustup
/Users/shep/.cargo/bin/rustup

The documentation states:

rustup installs rustc, cargo, rustup and other standard tools to Cargo's bin directory. On Unix it is located at $HOME/.cargo/bin and on Windows at %USERPROFILE%\.cargo\bin. This is the same directory that cargo install will install Rust programs and Cargo plugins.

It goes on to describe how to change the defaults:

rustup allows you to customise your installation by setting the environment variables CARGO_HOME and RUSTUP_HOME before running the rustup-init executable. As mentioned in the Environment Variables section, RUSTUP_HOME sets the root rustup folder, which is used for storing installed toolchains and configuration options. CARGO_HOME contains cache files used by cargo.

Solution 2

In my case rustup (along with it's installed toolchains) is in a folder named .rustup which is on the same level as .cargo

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  • Adrian
    Adrian almost 2 years

    I understand that rustup installs the rustc and cargo binaries to ~/.cargo/bin, but where does it install the rustup executable to? As far as I can tell this isn't explained in any documentation and running the installer doesn't tell you either. I'd like to avoid it being installed to anywhere except my home directory, if possible. I'm using macOS if that makes a difference.

  • aaaaaa
    aaaaaa about 3 years
    fwiw I tried installing via the standalone msi. It does not install in the default location as described and I didn't bother to check where it was installed because my path was also not updated as expected. So I uninstalled it then chose the appropriate exe under forge.rust-lang.org/infra/…. This worked fine
  • Shepmaster
    Shepmaster almost 3 years
    Does Chocolatey install rustup? That's what this question is about: Where does rustup install itself to? This question isn't about rustc in general.
  • Kyle Stay
    Kyle Stay almost 3 years
    It doesn't, but this is the first question/answer that comes up when you google "where does rust install itself?". I guess I didn't read the whole question, but this answer seems likely to help others to me.