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 Install Miri as a cargo subcommand:
 
 ```sh
-cargo +nightly install --git https://github.com/solson/miri/
+cargo +nightly install --git https://github.com/solson/miri/ miri
 ```
 
 Be aware that if you used `rustup override set` to fix a particular Rust version