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Yay installing package that is already installed

Hi,

I have yay installed as my AUR helper. When I now run "yay -Syu" to update, it is asking me to install a Rust option for Cargo.

However, I already have Rust installed on my system, it works. I have installed packages with "cargo install" etc(I think I installed Rust with the "curl" method listed on the Rust website).

So why is yay asking me to install something that I already have installed on my system and is there a way for me to disable it trying to install cargo/ rust? Or how best to resolve this?

Re: Yay installing package that is already installed

Reply #1 –
Hi. I strongly recommend not to install packages via Cargo, pip etc! Never, under any circumstances, unless you know exactly what you're doing!

Remove everything you installed this way, clean your system, and install the necessary packages from the repositories.