Commands

This section describe the Conan built-in commands, like conan install or conan search.

It is also possible to create user custom commands, visit custom commands reference and these custom command examples

Consumer commands:

• conan cache: Return the path of recipes and packages in the cache
• conan config: Manage Conan configuration (remotes, settings, plugins, etc)
• conan graph: Obtain information about the dependency graph without fetching binaries
• conan inspect: Inspect a conanfile.py to return the public fields
• conan install: Install dependencies
• conan list: List recipes, revisions and packages in the local cache or in remotes
• conan lock: Create and manage lockfiles
• conan profile: Display and manage profile files
• conan remove: Remove packages from the local cache or from remotes
• conan remote: Add, remove, login/logout and manage remote server
• conan search: Search packages matching a name

Creator commands:

• conan build: Install package and call its build method
• conan create: Create a package from a recipe
• conan download: Download (without install) a single conan package from a remote server.
• conan editable: Allows working with a package in user folder
• conan export: Export a recipe to the Conan package cache
• conan export-pkg: Create a package directly from pre-compiled binaries
• conan new: Create a new recipe from a predefined template
• conan source: Calls the source() method
• conan test: Test a package
• conan upload: Upload packages from the local cache to a specified remote