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Nimble tips

Nimble is the package manager of Nim.

When you install Nim (with choosenim, for instance), you'll also get nimble (it's located next to the nim binary). However, there is a chance that there is a newer version of nimble available.

nimble can be found here: https://github.com/nim-lang/nimble . Here you can check the latest version.

$ nimble -v

tells you the version. If there's a newer version available, update it:

$ nimble install nimble

If you want to see which version is installed, make it verbose:

$ nimble install --verbose nimble

The freshly installed binary goes here: ~/.nimble/bin . This directory should come before the folder that contains the old(er) nimble binary.

Sometimes, nimble doesn't want to install the latest tagged release. In this case specify the exact version:

$ nimble install nimble@0.22.3

Let's suppose that v0.22.3 is the latest version. The command above will install this version.

How to remove a package:

$ nimble uninstall pkg_name

How to install the latest commit:

$ nimble install pkg_name@#head

Notice that '@' must come before "#head".