How To Install cargo-outdated on Ubuntu 20.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install cargo-outdated on Ubuntu 20.04. cargo-outdated is Cargo subcommand for displaying when dependencies are out of date

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install cargo-outdated on Ubuntu 20.04.

What is cargo-outdated

cargo-outdated is:

This package contains the following binaries built from the Rust crate “cargo-outdated”:

  • cargo-outdated X-Cargo-Built-Using: gcc-9 (= 9.2.1-23ubuntu1), rust-aho-corasick (= 0.7.6-2), rust-ansi-term (= 0.12.1-1), rust-atty (= 0.2.13-1), rust-backtrace (= 0.3.40-2), rust-backtrace-sys (= 0.1.32-2), rust-bitflags (= 1.2.1-1), rust-bstr (= 0.2.8-1), rust-bytesize (= 1.0.0-1), rust-c2-chacha (= 0.2.2-1), rust-cargo (= 0.41.0-2), rust-cargo-platform (= 0.1.0-1), rust-cfg-if (= 0.1.10-1), rust-clap (= 2.33.0-5), rust-crates-io (= 0.29.0-1), rust-crc32fast (= 1.2.0-1), rust-crossbeam-channel (= 0.3.9-2), rust-crossbeam-utils (= 0.6.6-1), rust-crypto-hash (= 0.3.4-1), rust-curl (= 0.4.25-1), rust-curl-sys (= 0.4.24-1), rust-docopt (= 1.1.0-1), rust-env-logger (= 0.7.1-1), rust-failure (= 0.1.5-1build1), rust-filetime (= 0.2.8-1), rust-flate2 (= 1.0.9-1), rust-fnv (= 1.0.6-1), rust-foreign-types (= 0.3.2-1), rust-foreign-types-shared (= 0.1.1-1), rust-fs2 (= 0.4.3-1), rust-getrandom (= 0.1.13-4), rust-git2-curl (= 0.11.0-2), rust-git2 (= 0.10.2-1), rust-glob (= 0.3.0-1), rust-globset (= 0.4.4-2), rust-hex (= 0.4.0-1), rust-home (= 0.5.1-1), rust-humantime (= 1.3.0-1), rust-idna (= 0.2.0-1), rust-ignore (= 0.4.10-1), rust-im-rc (= 13.0.0-1build1), rust-itoa (= 0.4.3-1), rust-jobserver (= 0.1.17-2build1), rust-lazy-static (= 1.4.0-1), rust-lazycell (= 1.2.1-1), rust-libc (= 0.2.66-1), rust-libgit2-sys (= 0.9.2-2), rust-libnghttp2-sys (= 0.1.1-1), rust-libssh2-sys (= 0.2.13-1), rust-libz-sys (= 1.0.25-1), rust-log (= 0.4.8-2), rust-matches (= 0.1.8-1), rust-memchr (= 2.2.1-1), rust-num-cpus (= 1.11.1-1), rust-opener (= 0.4.1-1), rust-openssl (= 0.10.23-1), rust-openssl-probe (= 0.1.2-1), rust-openssl-sys (= 0.9.49-1), rust-percent-encoding (= 2.1.0-2), rust-ppv-lite86 (= 0.2.5-2), rust-quick-error (= 1.2.2-1), rust-rand-chacha (= 0.2.1-1), rust-rand-core (= 0.5.1-1), rust-rand (= 0.7.2-1), rust-regex (= 1.2.1-3), rust-regex-syntax (= 0.6.12-1), rust-remove-dir-all (= 0.5.2-1), rust-rustc-demangle (= 0.1.13-1), rust-rustc-workspace-hack (= 1.0.0-1), rust-rustfix (= 0.4.6-1), rust-ryu (= 1.0.2-1), rust-same-file (= 1.0.5-1), rust-semver (= 0.9.0-1), rust-semver-parser-0.7 (= 0.7.0-1), rust-serde (= 1.0.104-1), rust-serde-ignored (= 0.1.0-1), rust-serde-json (= 1.0.41-1), rust-shell-escape (= 0.1.4-1), rust-sized-chunks (= 0.3.1-1), rust-socket2 (= 0.3.11-1), rust-strip-ansi-escapes (= 0.1.0-1), rust-strsim (= 0.9.3-1), rust-tabwriter (= 1.1.0-1), rust-tar (= 0.4.26-1), rust-tempfile (= 3.1.0-1build2), rust-termcolor (= 1.0.5-1), rust-textwrap (= 0.11.0-1build1), rust-thread-local (= 0.3.6-1), rust-toml (= 0.5.5-1), rust-typenum (= 1.11.2-1), rust-unicode-bidi (= 0.3.4-2), rust-unicode-normalization (= 0.1.7-1), rust-unicode-width (= 0.1.7-1), rust-url (= 2.1.0-1), rust-utf8parse (= 0.1.1-1), rust-vec-map (= 0.8.1-2), rust-vte (= 0.3.3-1), rust-walkdir (= 2.2.9-1), rustc (= 1.38.0+dfsg0.2+llvm-0ubuntu2)

There are three methods to install cargo-outdated on Ubuntu 20.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install cargo-outdated Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install cargo-outdated using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install cargo-outdated

Install cargo-outdated Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install cargo-outdated using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install cargo-outdated

Install cargo-outdated 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 cargo-outdated using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install cargo-outdated

How To Uninstall cargo-outdated on Ubuntu 20.04

To uninstall only the cargo-outdated package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove cargo-outdated

Uninstall cargo-outdated And Its Dependencies

To uninstall cargo-outdated and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove cargo-outdated

Remove cargo-outdated Configurations and Data

To remove cargo-outdated configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge cargo-outdated

Remove cargo-outdated configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove cargo-outdated configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge cargo-outdated

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install cargo-outdated package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.