# Install cargo-watch

Watches over your Cargo project’s source. Version 8.5.3 via Cargo; verified 2024-10-02.

## Install

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

Additional install commands:

### Portable and language managers

- Cargo (100%):

```sh
cargo install cargo-watch
```

  Evidence: local crates.io package metadata

## Package Facts

- **Package key:** cargo:cargo-watch
- **Package manager:** Cargo
- **Package manager URL:** <https://crates.io/crates/cargo-watch>
- **Version:** 8.5.3
- **Source summary:** Watches over your Cargo project’s source
- **Homepage:** <https://watchexec.github.io/#cargo-watch>
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/watchexec/cargo-watch>
- **Upstream docs:** <https://watchexec.github.io/docs/#cargo-watch>
- **License:** CC0-1.0
- **Source archive:** <https://static.crates.io/crates/cargo-watch/cargo-watch-8.5.3.crate>
- **Published:** 2024-10-02 08:38:09.256209+00
- **Last updated:** 2024-10-02 08:38:09.256209+00
- **Generated:** 2026-06-18T16:49:02+00:00

## Executables

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

## Install Behavior

- Bottle: not available

## Freshness

- Page generated: 2026-06-18
- Package-manager version: 8.5.3

## Security Notes

No matching local secret-handling manifest was found for cargo-watch. 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:** 718
- **Crate Size:** 173,483
- **Edition:** 2021
- **Has Lib:** no
- **Num Versions:** 68
- **Recent Download Window Days:** 90
- **Rust Version:** 1.75.0
- **Version ID:** 1,287,837

## Other Package-Manager Records

- Nix - cargo-watch: normalized package name match | nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/ca/cargo-watch/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1
- apk - cargo-watch - 8.5.3-r0: normalized package name match | Alpine Linux edge package indexes: cargo-watch from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz | Utility for Cargo to compile projects when sources change | https://github.com/watchexec/cargo-watch
- apk - cargo-watch-doc - 8.5.3-r0: normalized package name match | Alpine Linux edge package indexes: cargo-watch-doc from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz | Utility for Cargo to compile projects when sources change (documentation) | https://github.com/watchexec/cargo-watch
- apk - cargo-watch-zsh-completion - 8.5.3-r0: normalized package name match | Alpine Linux edge package indexes: cargo-watch-zsh-completion from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz | Zsh completions for cargo-watch | https://github.com/watchexec/cargo-watch
- pacman - cargo-watch - 8.5.3-1: normalized package name match | Arch Linux sync databases: cargo-watch from https://geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com/extra/os/x86_64/extra.db.tar.gz | Utility for Cargo to compile projects when sources change | https://github.com/watchexec/cargo-watch
- Scoop - main/cargo-watch: normalized package name match | Scoop official bucket manifest trees: bucket/cargo-watch.json from https://api.github.com/repos/ScoopInstaller/Main/git/trees/master?recursive=1


## Sources

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