How To Install rustfmt on Debian 12
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install rustfmt on Debian 12.
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 Debian 12. 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 Debian. 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 Debian 12
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 Debian 12, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove rustfmt
Remove rustfmt Configurations and Data
To remove rustfmt configuration and data from Debian 12 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
Dependencies
rustfmt have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install rustfmt package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
