nabijaczleweli/cargo-update

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1578 stars · 62 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

A cargo subcommand (installed as cargo-update, invoked as cargo install-update) that checks and applies updates to executables installed via cargo install. It compares installed crate versions against crates.io and upgrades outdated ones in one command.

Use cases

• update all cargo-installed binaries at once
• check which installed rust executables are outdated
• keep rust cli tools up to date
• upgrade crates installed with cargo install
• list installed cargo executables and their versions

When to choose

• you install many tools via cargo install and want a single command to update them all
• you want to see which installed executables have newer versions on crates.io before upgrading
• you want cargo's installed binaries to behave like a managed package set

When to avoid

• you need to update project dependencies in Cargo.toml - use cargo update instead
• you want a general-purpose system package manager outside the Rust ecosystem
• you cannot install its native dependencies (libgit2, libcurl, libssh2, openssl) and don't want to use vendored feature builds

Facets

cli-tool · maturity active

package-manager cli developer-tools developer-tools version-control windows cli rust cargo-subcommand rust-ecosystem dependency-updates crates-io command-line linux macos

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