# Install cargo-sweep with Cargo

A tool for cleaning unused build files created by Cargo. Version 0.8.0 via Cargo; verified 2025-10-11.

## Install

```sh
sudo av install cargo:cargo-sweep
```

Additional install commands:

### Portable and language managers

- Cargo (100%):

```sh
cargo install cargo-sweep
```

  Evidence: local crates.io package metadata

## Package facts

- **Package key:** cargo:cargo-sweep
- **Package manager:** Cargo
- **Package manager page:** <https://crates.io/crates/cargo-sweep>
- **Version:** 0.8.0
- **Source summary:** A tool for cleaning unused build files created by Cargo
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/holmgr/cargo-sweep>
- **License:** MIT
- **Source archive:** <https://static.crates.io/crates/cargo-sweep/cargo-sweep-0.8.0.crate>
- **Published:** 2025-10-11 05:31:31.621035+00
- **Last updated:** 2025-10-11 05:31:31.621035+00
- **Generated:** 2026-07-08T07:18:31+00:00

## Executables

- cargo-sweep (binary): Declared by crates.io version metadata.

## Install behavior

- Bottle: not available

## Freshness

- Page generated: 2026-07-08
- Package-manager version: 0.8.0

## Security Notes

No matching local secret-handling manifest was found for cargo-sweep. Nucleus package metadata is still published here so future coverage has a stable package URL.


## Source Database Details

- **Source Database:** crates.io database dump
- **Crate ID:** 95,634
- **Crate Size:** 33,386
- **Edition:** 2021
- **Executable Intent:** Intent: public_cli, Signals: crate has no library target
- **Has Lib:** no
- **Num Versions:** 11
- **Recent Download Window Days:** 90
- **Version ID:** 1,769,205

## Other Package-Manager Records

- Nix - cargo-sweep: normalized package name match | nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/ca/cargo-sweep/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1
- pacman - cargo-sweep - 0.8.0-2: normalized package name match | Arch Linux sync databases: cargo-sweep from https://geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com/extra/os/x86_64/extra.db.tar.gz | A cargo subcommand for cleaning up unused build files generated by Cargo | https://github.com/holmgr/cargo-sweep


## Related links

- [cargo-sweep](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/cargo-sweep/) - Same normalized package name exists in another local package ecosystem.

## Sources

- crates.io package index
- external package-manager database matches
- cross-ecosystem install command graph