Yahoo! JAPAN

A guide to using uv to install Python, including requesting specific versions, automatic installation, viewing installed versions, and more.

By default, uv is installed in the user executable directory. To change the installation path, use UV_INSTALL_DIR : macOS and Linux Windows.

2025/4/4 -If you must access it from just the python command then you can do uv python install 3.12 --default --preview as mentioned in OP's post.

$ 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.

2024/9/26 -But since each install managed by uv has a very specific path, e.g.: .local/share/uv/python/cpython-3.12.6-macos-aarch64-none/bin/. Any ...

After installation, OSC recommends you create a local module so that uv can be loaded into your PATH with module load uv/<version> when you want to use it.

2024/10/8 -To install the latest version of Python, run: uv python install. You can also install a specific version like this uv python install 3.12.6 .

2026/9/7 -Install with the standalone installer (recommended) · Install uv from a package manager · Add PowerShell tab completion · Confirm uv is on your ...

uv executes and installs command-line tools provided by Python packages, similar to pipx . Run a tool in an ephemeral environment using uvx (an alias for uv ...