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Installing uv

Installation methods

Install uv with our standalone installers or your package manager of choice.

Standalone installer

uv provides a standalone installer to download and install uv:

Use curl to download the script and execute it with sh:

$ curl -LsSf https://astral.sh/uv/install.sh | sh

If your system doesn't have curl, you can use wget:

$ wget -qO- https://astral.sh/uv/install.sh | sh

Request a specific version by including it in the URL:

$ curl -LsSf https://astral.sh/uv/0.5.11/install.sh | sh

Use irm to download the script and execute it with iex:

$ powershell -ExecutionPolicy ByPass -c "irm https://astral.sh/uv/install.ps1 | iex"

Changing the execution policy allows running a script from the internet.

Request a specific version by including it in the URL:

$ powershell -ExecutionPolicy ByPass -c "irm https://astral.sh/uv/0.5.11/install.ps1 | iex"

Tip

The installation script may be inspected before use:

$ curl -LsSf https://astral.sh/uv/install.sh | less

$ powershell -c "irm https://astral.sh/uv/install.ps1 | more"

Alternatively, the installer or binaries can be downloaded directly from GitHub.

See the documentation on installer configuration for details on customizing your uv installation.

PyPI

For convenience, uv is published to PyPI.

If installing from PyPI, we recommend installing uv into an isolated environment, e.g., with pipx:

$ pipx install uv

However, pip can also be used:

$ pip install uv

Note

uv ships with prebuilt distributions (wheels) for many platforms; if a wheel is not available for a given platform, uv will be built from source, which requires a Rust toolchain. See the contributing setup guide for details on building uv from source.

Cargo

uv is available via Cargo, but must be built from Git rather than crates.io due to its dependency on unpublished crates.

$ cargo install --git https://github.com/astral-sh/uv uv

Homebrew

uv is available in the core Homebrew packages.

$ brew install uv

Winget

uv is available via winget.

$ winget install --id=astral-sh.uv  -e

Docker

uv provides a Docker image at ghcr.io/astral-sh/uv.

See our guide on using uv in Docker for more details.

GitHub Releases

uv release artifacts can be downloaded directly from GitHub Releases.

Each release page includes binaries for all supported platforms as well as instructions for using the standalone installer via github.com instead of astral.sh.

Upgrading uv

When uv is installed via the standalone installer, it can update itself on-demand:

$ uv self update

Tip

Updating uv will re-run the installer and can modify your shell profiles. To disable this behavior, set INSTALLER_NO_MODIFY_PATH=1.

When another installation method is used, self-updates are disabled. Use the package manager's upgrade method instead. For example, with pip:

$ pip install --upgrade uv

Shell autocompletion

To enable shell autocompletion for uv commands, run one of the following:

# Determine your shell (e.g., with `echo $SHELL`), then run one of:
echo 'eval "$(uv generate-shell-completion bash)"' >> ~/.bashrc
echo 'eval "$(uv generate-shell-completion zsh)"' >> ~/.zshrc
echo 'uv generate-shell-completion fish | source' >> ~/.config/fish/config.fish
echo 'eval (uv generate-shell-completion elvish | slurp)' >> ~/.elvish/rc.elv

Add-Content -Path $PROFILE -Value '(& uv generate-shell-completion powershell) | Out-String | Invoke-Expression'

To enable shell autocompletion for uvx, run one of the following:

# Determine your shell (e.g., with `echo $SHELL`), then run one of:
echo 'eval "$(uvx --generate-shell-completion bash)"' >> ~/.bashrc
echo 'eval "$(uvx --generate-shell-completion zsh)"' >> ~/.zshrc
echo 'uvx --generate-shell-completion fish | source' >> ~/.config/fish/config.fish
echo 'eval (uvx --generate-shell-completion elvish | slurp)' >> ~/.elvish/rc.elv

Add-Content -Path $PROFILE -Value '(& uvx --generate-shell-completion powershell) | Out-String | Invoke-Expression'

Then restart the shell or source the shell config file.

Uninstallation

If you need to remove uv from your system, follow these steps:

  1. Clean up stored data (optional):

    $ uv cache clean
$ rm -r "$(uv python dir)"
$ rm -r "$(uv tool dir)"

    Tip

    Before removing the binaries, you may want to remove any data that uv has stored.

  2. Remove the uv and uvx binaries:

    $ rm ~/.local/bin/uv ~/.local/bin/uvx

    $ rm $HOME\.local\bin\uv.exe
$ rm $HOME\.local\bin\uvx.exe

    Note

    Prior to 0.5.0, uv was installed into ~/.cargo/bin. The binaries can be removed from there to uninstall. Upgrading from an older version will not automatically remove the binaries from ~/.cargo/bin.

Next steps

See the first steps or jump straight to the guides to start using uv.