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cargo install help text is not very helpful #4417

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colemickens opened this issue Aug 19, 2017 · 1 comment · Fixed by #6354
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cargo install help text is not very helpful #4417

colemickens opened this issue Aug 19, 2017 · 1 comment · Fixed by #6354
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A-documenting-cargo-itself Area: Cargo's documentation C-enhancement Category: enhancement Command-install

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$ cargo help

    ...
    install     Install a Rust binary
    ...

That doesn't tell me much. Does it install to something like ~/.cargo/bin? Does it try to reach into /usr/local/bin?
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it should be ~/.cargo/bin.

@alexcrichton alexcrichton added the A-documenting-cargo-itself Area: Cargo's documentation label Aug 20, 2017
@collin5 collin5 mentioned this issue Nov 27, 2018
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Auto merge of #6354 - collin5:b4417, r=dwijnand
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Improve doc for `cargo install`

Fixes #4417
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Improve doc for cargo install collin5/cargo
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