Basic Rust Commands

  • To check version or to verify that Rust is installed properly:

    rustc --version
    
  • Update Rust:

    rustup update
    
  • Uninstall Rust and rustup:

    rustup self uninstall
    
  • Open Rust Docs locally on browser:

    rustup doc
    
  • List the rustup toolchain

    rustup toolchain list
    
  • Install rustup toolchain

    rustup toolchain install nightly-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
    
  • Use nightly on a specific project (after this all the rustc and cargo commands will use nightly):

    cd ~/projects/needs-nightly
    rustup override set nightly