Installing uv on Fedora Silverblue

install-uv-fedora-silverblue.md

Installing uv on Fedora Silverblue

uv is a fast, all-in-one Python package and project manager written in Rust, developed by Astral (creators of Ruff). It replaces pip, virtualenv, pyenv, and pipx.

Install

Since Fedora Silverblue is an immutable OS, the recommended way is the official installer script, which places uv in ~/.local/bin — no system modifications needed.

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

Then reload your shell:

source ~/.bashrc
# or for zsh:
source ~/.zshrc

Verify:

uv --version

Add to PATH (if needed)

If the uv command is not found after installation:

echo 'export PATH="$HOME/.local/bin:$PATH"' >> ~/.bashrc
source ~/.bashrc

Update

uv self update

What to avoid on Silverblue

❌ Don't do this	Why
rpm-ostree install uv	uv is not in Fedora's repositories
sudo dnf install uv	Doesn't work on an immutable system
Installing inside Toolbox	Works but unnecessary — home dir is fine

Quick usage

uv init my-project      # create a new project
uv add requests         # add a dependency
uv run main.py          # run a script
uvx black my_file.py    # run a CLI tool (like pipx)

Links

• uv documentation
• GitHub repository