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uv

Section titled “uv”

uv is an extremely fast Python package and project manager written in Rust that aims to be a “Cargo for Python.” It’s designed as a single tool to replace pip, pip-tools, pipx, poetry, pyenv, and virtualenv, offering 10-100x speed improvements over traditional tools. uv provides a drop-in replacement for existing workflows while adding advanced features like dependency version overrides and alternative resolution strategies.

How to install uv

Section titled “How to install uv”

Install to /zata/zippy/$(whoami)/.local to create a global installation on all zervers (/zata is a shared filesystem).

Terminal window
mkdir -p /zata/zippy/$(whoami)/.local/bin
mkdir -p /zata/zippy/$(whoami)/.local/share
mkdir -p /zata/zippy/$(whoami)/.cache
curl -LsSf https://astral.sh/uv/install.sh | env UV_INSTALL_DIR=/zata/zippy/$(whoami)/.local/bin UV_PYTHON_INSTALL_DIR=/zata/zippy/$(whoami)/.local/share UV_CACHE_DIR=/zata/zippy/$(whoami)/.cache sh

Documentation

Section titled “Documentation”

Refer to the uv documentation to get more detailed information on subcommands.