Is there a way to install packages "globally" using dub?

For example, when using the node package manager (NPM) you can install a package "globally" (so it is available for the current user from the command line) using the --global flag as follows:

npm install --global typescript

This would make tsc command (which invokes the TypeScript compiler) available from the command line outside of any project. This would be convenient for packages like dfmt.

On Thursday, 6 October 2022 at 07:06:52 UTC, Preetpal wrote:

Kind of. dub fetch dfmt downloads the package (by default to your $HOME/.dub/packages directory, after that you can run dfmt via dub run dfmt.
dfmt as a binary is not installed in a common bin directory.

On Thursday, 6 October 2022 at 08:50:02 UTC, christian.koestlin wrote:

Thanks, this works well enough for me.