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Aider: Using Uv as an Installer
Paul Gauthier has an innovative solution for the challenge of helping end users get a copy of his Aider CLI Python utility installed in an isolated virtual environment without first …
This first figures out the location of the uv Rust binary, then uses it to install his aider-chat package by running the equivalent of this command: This will in turn install a brand new standalone copy of Python 3.12 and tuck it away in uv's own managed directory structure where it shouldn't hurt anything else. The--force flag ensures that uv will overwrite any previous attempts at installing aider-chat in that location with the new one.
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