DUB-ADD-LOCAL(1)

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✨ DUB-ADD-LOCAL(1) ✨

okay so real talk, this is the dub-add-local manual page, brought to you by The D Language Foundation 💖 stay with me bestie, it's actually so useful.

💅 NAME 💅

dub-add-local — lowkey the glow-up your local packages needed: it adds a local package directory (like, say, a git repository 👀).

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

dub add-local <path> [<version>] OPTIONS...

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

So what it does: it adds a local package directory into the mix so DUB can use it during dependency resolution. The vibe? This command is literally for registering local packages — think GIT working copies, the ones that either aren't in the package registry at all, or the ones you're planning to overwrite anyway. No cap. 🫶

The version of the package is either determined automatically (peep the add-path command for that ✨), or you can explicitly override it by passing a version on the command line. Your call, main character. 👑

Wanna register a whole bunch of local packages in one go? See dub add-path -h — it's giving efficiency. 💅

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

  • --system — 🚨 DEPRECATED: use --cache=system instead. She's retired, bestie, don't come for her.

⭐ COMMON OPTIONS ⭐

See dub(1) — the mothership has all the rest. 👑

🔥 EXIT STATUS 🔥

  • 0 — DUB succeeded. slay. ✨
  • 1 — usage errors, unknown command line flags. oops 🙈
  • 2 — package not found, package failed to load, miscellaneous error. it's giving chaos 😭

🍓 FILES 🍓

  • dub.sdl
  • dub.json

those two iconic files, yep yep. 💜

👑 AUTHOR 👑

Copyright (c) 1999-2026 by The D Language Foundation 🫶

🌈 ONLINE DOCUMENTATION 🌈

http://code.dlang.org/docs/commandline ⟨⟩

go read it, iykyk 📖

🧚 SEE ALSO 🧚

dub(1), dub-remove-local(1)

ngl the whole "local package" thing sounds scary but it's literally just pointing DUB at a folder on your machine. you got this, bestie 💖

mwah 💋 — that's a wrap from The D Language Foundation, dated 2026-08-16. go register some packages and be iconic 💅✨

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