rustup - The Rust toolchain installer If you want to use the versions of rust installed through rustup by default for everything, you'll need to add links to the rustup binary on your path before the system rust. You are free to choose where, but here is an example for a single user: mkdir -p $HOME/.rustup/shims for lnk in cargo cargo-fmt rls rustc rustdoc rustfmt rust-gdb rust-lldb do ( cd $HOME/.rustup/shims ln -s /usr/bin/rustup $lnk ) done Then add the directory to your path (.bashrc for example): export PATH="$HOME/.rustup/shims:$PATH"