Installation

Using `cargo` with system's OpenSSL

cargo install cargo-generate

See the openssl-sys crate readme on how to obtain the OpenSSL library for your system. Alternatively, use the vendored-openssl flag if you do not want to install OpenSSL.

Using `cargo` with vendored OpenSSL

⚠️ NOTE: vendored-openssl requires the following packages to be installed:

libssl-dev

gcc

m4

ca-certificates

make

perl

cargo install cargo-generate --features vendored-openssl

Using `pacman` (Arch Linux)

cargo-generate can be installed from the community repository for Arch Linux:

pacman -S cargo-generate

Manual Installation

Download the binary tarball for your platform from our releases page.
Unpack the tarball and place the binary cargo-generate in ~/.cargo/bin/