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The pub
tool has commands for managing packages
and for deploying packages and command-line apps.
For general information about using the pub package manager, see
how to use packages.
Quick links to the pub
commands:
Pub’s commands fall into the following categories:
Managing package dependencies
Pub provides a number of commands for managing the packages your code depends on.
In this group, the most commonly used commands are pub get
and
pub upgrade
, which retrieve or upgrade dependencies used by a package.
Every time you modify a pubspec file, run pub get
to make sure the dependencies are up to date. Some IDEs
perform this step automatically on the creation of a project,
or any modification of the pubspec.
pub cache
- Manages pub’s local package cache. Use this command to add packages to your cache, or to perform a clean reinstall of all packages in your cache.
pub deps
- Lists all dependencies used by the current package.
pub downgrade
- Retrieves the lowest versions of all the packages that are listed as dependencies used by the current package. Used for testing the lower range of your package’s dependencies.
pub get
- Retrieves the packages that are listed as the dependencies for
the current package.
If a
pubspec.lock
file already exists, fetches the version of each dependency (if possible) as listed in the lock file. Creates or updates the lock file, as needed. pub upgrade
- Retrieves the latest version of each package listed
as dependencies used by the current package. If a
pubspec.lock
file exists, ignores the versions listed in the lock file and fetches the newest versions that honor the constraints in the pubspec. Creates or updates the lock file, as needed.
Running command-line apps
Two commands let you run Dart scripts from the command line:
-
The
pub run
command invokes a Dart script in your package, or in one of its dependencies. -
The
pub global
command lets you work with globally available packages.
Deploying packages and apps
With pub you can publish packages and command-line apps.
Packages
To share your Dart packages with the world, you can
use the pub publish
command to upload the
package to the pub.dev site. The
pub uploader
command enables specific
users to modify and upload new versions of your package.
Command-line apps
For any package that contains scripts (anything under the bin/
directory), consider adding the executables
tag to the pubspec file.
When a script is listed under executables
, users can run
pub global activate
to make it directly available from the command line.
Global options
Several command-line options work with all of the pub commands. These include:
-
--help
or-h
- Print usage information.
--version
- Print version of pub.
--trace
- Print debugging information when an error occurs.
--verbosity=<level>
- The specified level determines the amount of information that is displayed:
-
all
- Show all output, including internal tracing messages.
-
io
- Show I/O operations.
-
normal
- Show errors, warnings, and user messages.
-
solver
- Show steps during version resolution.
-
-verbose
or-v
- Equivalent to
--verbosity=all
.