`cargo install` not installing binary globally

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I published my first crate on crates.io, its a simple octad puzzle generator (soon featuring solving).
I tried installing the binary through this command:

cargo install octad

which supposedly installs the binary globally.
However, I can't call "octad" from my terminal. I recall installing Zellij using cargo install a while ago, and that just worked, however this does not.
Thanks in advance, I'm generally pretty new to Rust.

2

Can you see the octad binary in your $CARGO_HOME/bin/[1] directory?

  1. On Linux the $CARGO_HOME directory defaults to $HOME/.cargo/ ↩︎

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I can. Also, I should mention that I am using NixOS, which may change how some things work.

4

Never used NixOS, so I'm not sure if there is any significant difference to other Linux distros. You are still using a common shell like bash or zsh though, right? Can you see the $CARGO_HOME/bin/ directory in your $PATH?

5

I am using a traditional shell (more specifically, zsh), but I can't see the directory in the $PATH.
I probably should add it into there, I suppose?

6

Yes. Rustup added this line to my ~/.profile file during installation, which prepends the bin/ directory from the cargo home to my path:

. "$HOME/.cargo/env"

I believe zsh doesn't load ~/.profile, but AFAIK you can simply add the line to your ~/.zprofile or ~/.zshrc file and the directory should be added to your path in zsh as well.