How To Install rust-analysis on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install rust-analysis on CentOS 8.
What is rust-analysis
This package contains analysis data files produced with rustc’s -Zsave-analysis feature for the Rust standard library. The RLS (Rust Language Server) uses this data to provide information about the Rust standard library.
We can use yum or dnf to install rust-analysis on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install rust-analysis.
Install rust-analysis on CentOS 8 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream 43 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS 65 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease 43 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras 23 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack 40 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability 36 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus 24 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools 50 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64 13 kB/s | 9.2 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64 24 kB/s | 8.5 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install rust-analysis using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install rust-analysis
Install rust-analysis on CentOS 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream 43 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS 65 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease 43 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras 23 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack 40 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability 36 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus 24 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools 50 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64 13 kB/s | 9.2 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64 24 kB/s | 8.5 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install rust-analysis using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install rust-analysis
How To Uninstall rust-analysis on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the rust-analysis package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove rust-analysis
rust-analysis Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/lib/rustlib/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/analysis
/usr/lib/rustlib/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/analysis/libaddr2line-ab8dbaac4c0d7732.json
/usr/lib/rustlib/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/analysis/libadler-b45fa80c9f820131.json
/usr/lib/rustlib/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/analysis/liballoc-dc5b96fd3f726f98.json
/usr/lib/rustlib/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/analysis/libcfg_if-e8489c1f15fbb688.json
/usr/lib/rustlib/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/analysis/libcompiler_builtins-f3b7d6167c6144e8.json
/usr/lib/rustlib/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/analysis/libcore-fa27894a72ccaffb.json
/usr/lib/rustlib/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/analysis/libgetopts-a4181e3fc73065f2.json
/usr/lib/rustlib/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/analysis/libgimli-0e3889b6eeaee63a.json
/usr/lib/rustlib/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/analysis/libhashbrown-2ed3659cb2b192e7.json
/usr/lib/rustlib/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/analysis/liblibc-fef34517006e769f.json
/usr/lib/rustlib/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/analysis/libminiz_oxide-584fcc78417f28df.json
/usr/lib/rustlib/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/analysis/libobject-b2f6e937b6e750dc.json
/usr/lib/rustlib/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/analysis/libpanic_abort-7541574a84f193be.json
/usr/lib/rustlib/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/analysis/libpanic_unwind-461b3fa1efa6d7f1.json
/usr/lib/rustlib/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/analysis/libproc_macro-3793ae7bb43ef97a.json
/usr/lib/rustlib/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/analysis/librustc_demangle-9fecffcc835d0557.json
/usr/lib/rustlib/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/analysis/librustc_std_workspace_alloc-ea332f4c2861957c.json
/usr/lib/rustlib/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/analysis/librustc_std_workspace_core-16106dedcf2b37fb.json
/usr/lib/rustlib/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/analysis/librustc_std_workspace_std-15e7227797e02896.json
/usr/lib/rustlib/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/analysis/libstd-298e90ecb364dd7e.json
/usr/lib/rustlib/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/analysis/libterm-b40271cebce2a007.json
/usr/lib/rustlib/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/analysis/libtest-8ff28a13152e87d7.json
/usr/lib/rustlib/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/analysis/libunicode_width-6631d5ce135c905e.json
/usr/lib/rustlib/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/analysis/libunwind-fe758eab1fa21a1e.json
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install rust-analysis on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.
