# Install protoc-gen-prost

Protocol Buffers compiler plugin powered by Prost! Version 0.5.0 via Cargo; verified 2025-11-30.

## Install

```sh
sudo av install cargo:protoc-gen-prost
```

Additional install commands:

### Portable and language managers

- Cargo (100%):

```sh
cargo install protoc-gen-prost
```

  Evidence: local crates.io package metadata

## Package Facts

- **Package key:** cargo:protoc-gen-prost
- **Package manager:** Cargo
- **Package manager URL:** <https://crates.io/crates/protoc-gen-prost>
- **Version:** 0.5.0
- **Source summary:** Protocol Buffers compiler plugin powered by Prost!
- **Homepage:** <https://github.com/neoeinstein/protoc-gen-prost>
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/neoeinstein/protoc-gen-prost>
- **Upstream docs:** <https://docs.rs/protoc-gen-prost>
- **License:** Apache-2.0
- **Source archive:** <https://static.crates.io/crates/protoc-gen-prost/protoc-gen-prost-0.5.0.crate>
- **Published:** 2025-11-30 22:27:14.427912+00
- **Last updated:** 2025-11-30 22:27:14.427912+00
- **Generated:** 2026-06-18T16:49:02+00:00

## Executables

- protoc-gen-prost (binary): Declared by crates.io version metadata.

## Install Behavior

- Bottle: not available

## Freshness

- Page generated: 2026-06-18
- Package-manager version: 0.5.0

## Security Notes

No matching local secret-handling manifest was found for protoc-gen-prost. 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:** 538,858
- **Crate Size:** 12,711
- **Edition:** 2021
- **Has Lib:** yes
- **Num Versions:** 14
- **Recent Download Window Days:** 90
- **Rust Version:** 1.62
- **Version ID:** 1,851,831

## Other Package-Manager Records

- Nix - protoc-gen-prost: normalized package name match | nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/pr/protoc-gen-prost/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1


## Sources

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