Installation - The Cargo Book

## Installation

### Install Rust and Cargo

The easiest way to get Cargo is to install the current stable release of Rust by using `rustup`.

On Linux and macOS systems, this is done as follows:

    $ curl -sSf https://static.rust-lang.org/rustup.sh | sh

It will download a script, and start the installation. If everything goes well, you’ll see this appear:

    Rust is installed now. Great!

On Windows, download and run rustup-init.exe. It will start the installation in a console and present the above message on success.

After this, you can use the `rustup` command to also install `beta` or `nightly` channels for Rust and Cargo.

For other installation options and information, visit the install page of the Rust website.

### Build and Install Cargo from Source

Alternatively, you can build Cargo from source.