Installing Deno via Cargo and other options

By R. S. Doiel, 2024-12-13

I’ve recently needed to install Deno on several Debian flavored Linux boxes. I wanted to install Deno using the cargo install --locked deno command. Notice the --locked option, you need that for Deno. This worked for the recent Ubuntu 22.04 LTS release. I needed alternatives for Ubuntu 20.04 LTS and Raspberry Pi OS.

Using Cargo

Prerequisites:

• Rust (install with Rustup)
• CMake
• Clang, LLVM dev, Clang DEV and the lld (clang) linker
• SQLite3 and LibSQLite3 dev
• pkg config
• libssh dev, libssl dev

The Debian flavors I work with are recent (Dec. 2024) Ubuntu 22.04 LTS release¹.

Recently when I was installing Deno 2.1.4 I got errors about building the flate2 module. I had forgotten to include the --locked option in my cargo command. I found this solution in Deno GitHub issue 9524.

sudo apt install -y build-essential cmake clang libclang-dev llvm-dev lld \
                    sqlite3 libsqlite3-dev pkg-config libssh-dev libssl-dev
rustup update
cargo install deno --locked

Other options

For Ubuntu 20.04 LTS and Raspberry Pi OS, use curl -fsSL https://deno.land/install.sh | sh to install.

For Windows on ARM64 use iwr https://deno.land/install.ps1 -useb | iex.

curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSf https://sh.rustup.rs | sh On Raspberry Pi OS I added a nice before calling cargo. Without the “nice” it failed after the “spin” module.