The rustup website has robust installation methods, especially when you are on a Windows OS – this is what worked for me.

Run the command below in your terminal:

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

This downloads the installer, then proceeds to ask if you want a customization of the installation, then downloads and installs the below components:

  • cargo
  • clippy
  • rust-docs
  • rust-sdt
  • rustc
  • rustfmt

Then run one of these to add the binaries to the PATH of the current shell session:

. "$HOME/.cargo/env" # For sh/bash/zsh/ash/dash/pdksh
source "$HOME/.cargo/env.fish" # For fish
source $"($nu.home-path)/.cargo/env.nu" # For nushell

The installation can be verified by running rustc command, which returns the help output.

Useful things that can be done with this installation include:

  • rustc -version: Get the installation version number
  • rustup update: Update the current installation to the LTS
  • rustup self uninstall: Uninstalls Rust and all the other components installed along it

Voila!