Installing

linuxutils is currently distributed as source. Deb and Rpm packages are planned but not yet available; a Nix flake is provided.

With Cargo

You will need a recent Rust toolchain. The easiest way to install one is via rustup; the repository pins a specific toolchain via rust-toolchain.toml, which rustup will pick up automatically.

Install all tools in a category

cargo install linuxutils-disk
cargo install linuxutils-system
# ... etc.

Install a single tool

Each group crate exposes one cargo feature per tool. Disable defaults and pick the feature you want:

cargo install linuxutils-system --no-default-features --features lscpu
cargo install linuxutils-disk --no-default-features --features blockdev

Multicall binary

A single linuxutils binary that dispatches to any tool — useful for container images and minimal installs:

cargo install linuxutils
linuxutils lscpu
# or symlink: ln -s $(which linuxutils) /usr/local/bin/lscpu && lscpu

Building from source

git clone https://github.com/rustutils/linuxutils
cd linuxutils
cargo build --release

The build produces one binary per tool in target/release/, plus a multicall binary called linuxutils. Generate man pages with:

cargo xtask mangen target/man

With Nix

A flake.nix is provided at the repo root, using crane to drive the cargo build.

Individual tool binaries plus cdylibs and man pages:

nix build .#linuxutils

Multicall binary plus per-tool symlinks, cdylibs, and man pages:

nix build .#linuxutils-multicall

Development shell with cargo, rustc, clippy, rustfmt, and cargo-nextest:

nix develop