Installing uv

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

Standalone installer

uv provides a standalone installer that downloads and installs uv:

# On macOS and Linux.
curl -LsSf https://astral.sh/uv/install.sh | sh

# On Windows.
powershell -c "irm https://astral.sh/uv/install.ps1 | iex"

uv is installed to ~/.cargo/bin.

!!! note

The installation script may be inspected with:

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

Alternatively, the installer or binaries can be downloaded directly from [GitHub](#github-releases).

A specific release can be requested by including the version in the URL:

# On macOS and Linux.
curl -LsSf https://astral.sh/uv/0.2.11/install.sh | sh

# On Windows.
powershell -c "irm https://astral.sh/uv/0.2.11/install.ps1 | iex"

When the standalone installer is used, uv can upgrade itself.

uv self update

Note when all other installers are used, self updates are disabled.

PyPI

For convenience, uv is published to PyPI.

If installing from PyPI, we recommend using pipx to install uv into an isolated environment:

pipx install uv

However, pip can also be used:

pip install uv

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

Homebrew

uv is available in the core Homebrew packages.

brew install uv

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 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.

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