[Question] Cargo Offline/Global Packages

[rburmorrison]

I've seen this question asked before, however they were all a few years ago and not for my particular use case. My question is this: is there any way to install cargo packages globally on a system? I am a systems programmer that works in environments that are disconnected from the internet. Rust with Cargo seems like a great environment that I would love to invest my time into, however I cannot just download packages on a whim. Currently, I use Golang because it has both the option to have packages installed globally, or have them installed within the project folder. As much as I love Go, I need something faster.

I agree that in a production environment it's more practical and preferred to have the system that Cargo is built around (a Cargo.toml file that lists the dependencies). Overall, I would like to pre-install a bunch of dependencies that I know I'll need on my offline machine before disconnecting it from the internet (basically forever) like I can with Golang, Python (although it's not practical), and C/C++. Is this a possibility? Thanks.

[sfackler]

The --offline flag is designed to support this kind of workflow: #5655

[alexcrichton]

Indeed! I'm going to close this in favor of #5655 as that's the unstable feature implemented to solve this problem, and it's currently tracking stabilization/implementation.