Cargo and features

The latest version of rand is available here: https://crates.io/crates/rand

On the same page, and also from the repository's README, you can see documentation of the Crate Features. In particular, you may want to use the small_rng feature to enable the SmallRng generator.

To add this dependency on Rand from the console, type:

cargo add rand --features small_rng

Or, add this to your Cargo.toml, under [dependencies]:

rand = { version = "0.8.5", features = ["small_rng"] }

Note: using version = "0.8.5" matches version 0.8.5, 0.8.6, etc., but not 0.9. Using instead version = "0.8" will match any 0.8.x version. In both cases, Cargo will normally install the latest matching version when the dependency is first added. Dependencies may be updated later via cargo update, and in some cases running cargo update can solve dependency problems.

For more on Cargo, see The Cargo Book.

Other crates

As noted on the Crates page, the Rand library consists of a family of crates. To run the examples in this guide, ensure you have the following dependencies in your Cargo.toml:

[dependencies]
rand = { version = "0.8.5", features = ["small_rng"] }
rand_chacha = "0.3.1"
rand_distr = "0.4.3"
rand_pcg = "0.3.1"
rand_seeder = "0.2.3"