How To Install rustfmt on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install rustfmt
on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is rustfmt
rustfmt is:
Rust is a curly-brace, block-structured expression language. It visually resembles the C language family, but differs significantly in syntactic and semantic details. Its design is oriented toward concerns of “programming in the large”, that is, of creating and maintaining boundaries - both abstract and operational - that preserve large-system integrity, availability and concurrency.
It supports a mixture of imperative procedural, concurrent actor, object-oriented and pure functional styles. Rust also supports generic programming and meta-programming, in both static and dynamic styles.
This package contains ‘rustfmt’, a tool for formatting Rust code according to style guidelines, as well as ‘cargo-fmt’, a helper enabling running rustfmt directly with ‘cargo fmt’.
There are three methods to install rustfmt
on Ubuntu 22.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install rustfmt Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install rustfmt
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install rustfmt
Install rustfmt Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install rustfmt
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install rustfmt
Install rustfmt Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude
using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install rustfmt
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install rustfmt
How To Uninstall rustfmt on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the rustfmt
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove rustfmt
Uninstall rustfmt And Its Dependencies
To uninstall rustfmt
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove rustfmt
Remove rustfmt Configurations and Data
To remove rustfmt
configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge rustfmt
Remove rustfmt configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove rustfmt
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge rustfmt
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install rustfmt
package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.