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Expand Up @@ -74,6 +74,17 @@ and you should be able to run `rustup`, `rustc`, `cargo`, etc. normally.

[correctly exposed]: ./already-installed-rust.html#ensure-the-correct-path-configuration

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As per the intro in https://github.com/microsoft/winget-cli, this section is better stylized as:

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Please put this section under ### Homebrew to keep the sections ordered.


`MSVC` Pre Requisite
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The MSVC installation instructions belong to another section which is located under https://rust-lang.github.io/rustup/installation/windows-msvc.html (you can use relative links to refer to it here if you want) so please don't put it here.

```powershell
winget install Microsoft.VisualStudio.2022.Community --silent --override "--wait --quiet --add ProductLang En-us --add Microsoft.VisualStudio.Workload.NativeDesktop --includeRecommended"
```
Installing `rustup`
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Please consider wording and formatting consistency:

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Installing `rustup`
You can use `winget` to install `rustup`:

```powershell
winget install Rustlang.Rustup
```

### APT

Starting from Debian 13 (trixie) and Ubuntu 24.04 (noble),
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