dub install package globally

[christian.koestlin]

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

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.