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This was how I installed it (Mac):

  1) Install latest version of Rust found here: http://www.rust-lang.org
  2) git clone --recursive git@github.com:rust-lang/cargo.git
  3) make
  4) make install (could be that sudo is needed for you)

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I'm putting rust in $HOME/bin (and other self compiled software). You can change the default installation from /usr/local by running

  DESTDIR=$HOME make install

There is no brew formula?

For rust? There is...cargo not so much

aroch:~/staging/|⇒ brew info rust

rust: stable 0.10 (bottled), HEAD

http://www.rust-lang.org/

/usr/local/Cellar/rust/0.10 (74 files, 174M) *

  Poured from bottle

From: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew/commits/master/Library/...

aroch:~/staging/|⇒ brew info cargo

Error: No available formula for cargo

Rust has a brew package. Cargo is new so it may be a day or three before it gets out there too.

Hmm, well, rust's brew seems a little outdated (0.10), so if you are intent on using Cargo soon, I would recommend on building rust yourself or grabbing a new binary from their website.

There is a homebrew-cask of Rust's nightly binary. I think this should work:

  brew tap caskroom/cask
  brew install brew-cask
  brew tap caskroom/versions
  brew cask install rust-nightly

Stuff being either in Cask or Homebrew is just terrible. Homebrew also has a versions tap. Those two projects should combine efforts and remove ambiguity.

I 100% agree with you. It took me like an hour to figure out where I thought it made sense to put rust-nightly, and I'm still not really sure I did it right. But it works and is way better than the morning compilation cronjob I used to use.

I agree, it works, but we need to keep pressing those guys... or contribute. Cask still doesn't have reinstall/upgrade. As far as I know, Homebrew can't upgrade packages with head versions, and, worst pain of all - Homebrew doesn't support Yosemite or any unreleased OS X version. Being a tool for developers primarily, all the above are must-haves!

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