How to deal with warning about rust-analyzer

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When I ran rustup update, I got a warning like this:

**warning:** tool `rust-analyzer` is already installed, remove it from `/Users/<myname>/.cargo/bin`, then run `rustup update` to have rustup manage this tool.

Probably a dumb question, but what exactly should I do? Should I just go to the /Users/<myname>/.cargo/bin and do: rm rust-analyzer ?

This is on macOS 12.7 with Rust 1.76.0

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That is what rustup is suggesting you do, and that will be sufficient for its purposes. Of course, another question is how the file that's there now got there — usually, only cargo install and rustup write to ~/.cargo/bin.

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Good question. I only installed rust-analyzer within VS Code (via extensions) v0.3.1860. Now I just uninstalled it within VS Code but the one under ~/.cargo/bin still there.

I'm gonna rm it. Just wondering, is rust-analyzer just a single file? no other things as part of the install, right?

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Btw, how does rustup manage rust-analyzer? Does it mean we should not / need not install it within VS code via extensions?