Standalone installation script installed uv fails to uv self update

[scienceplease]

Recent versions of uv have not been able to uv self update despite being installed via the standalone installation script. I have not been able to pinpoint the issue to anything in particular on my system. All relevant information below:

cat /etc/redhat-release 
# Fedora release 40 (Forty)

env | grep CARGO_HOME
# CARGO_HOME=/home/username/.local/opt/rust/cargo

curl -LsSf https://astral.sh/uv/install.sh | sh
# downloading uv 0.4.0 x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
# installing to /home/username/.local/opt/rust/cargo/bin
#  uv
#  uvx
# everything's installed!
#
# To add /home/username/.local/opt/rust/cargo/bin to your PATH, either restart your shell or run:
#
#    source /home/username/.local/opt/rust/cargo/env (sh, bash, zsh)
#    source /home/username/.local/opt/rust/cargo/env.fish (fish)

which uv
# ~/.local/opt/rust/cargo/bin/uv

uv --version
# uv 0.4.0

uv self update
# warning: Self-update is only available for uv binaries installed via the standalone installation scripts.
#
# If you installed uv with pip, brew, or another package manager, update uv with `pip install # --upgrade`, `brew upgrade`, or similar.

[telljmc]

I am encountering a similar issue on a Macbook Pro M3. I installed uv using the curl command. When I attempt to update I encounter the following:

❯ uv self update
info: Checking for updates...
error: The installation failed. Output from the installer:
downloading uv 0.4.3 aarch64-apple-darwin

I tried the "--verbose" flag which resulted in exactly the same message. I tried closing everything and rebooting with the same result. Next up will be to do an uninstall and fresh reinstall.

[zanieb]

Hm. I'm on a M3 as well and can't reproduce that.

[telljmc]

I am encountering a similar issue on a Macbook Pro M3. I installed uv using the curl command. When I attempt to update I encounter the following:

❯ uv self update
info: Checking for updates...
error: The installation failed. Output from the installer:
downloading uv 0.4.3 aarch64-apple-darwin

I tried the "--verbose" flag which resulted in exactly the same message. I tried closing everything and rebooting with the same result. Next up will be to do an uninstall and fresh reinstall.

To update, I finally had to uninstall uv 0.3.5 and then install uv 0.4.3. Today I tried to update to uv 0.4.5 and I am running into the same issue as previous:

❯ uv self update
info: Checking for updates...
error: The installation failed. Output from the installer:
downloading uv 0.4.5 aarch64-apple-darwin

[lucas-labs]

I'm having the same issue in Windows (installed via standalone script).

$ uv self update

warning: Self-update is only available for uv binaries installed via the
standalone installation scripts.

If you installed uv with pip, brew, or another package manager, update uv with
`pip install --upgrade`, `brew upgrade`, or similar.

[EDIT]

I managed to run self update successfully thanks to a comment here #6417.

I was using cache-dir to change the cache directory to another drive. Apparently I also removed the entire %LOCALAPPDATA%\uv directory after doing so, instead of just removing %LOCALAPPDATA%\uv\cache. Therefore, I had removed %LOCALAPPDATA%\uv\uv-receipt.json file in the process (running uv self update -v gave me the hint... it couldn't find the receipt). I mannually created the receipt file and it all started working again.

[leehanchung]

Got the same problem.

$ uv self update
warning: Self-update is only available for `uv` binaries installed via the standalone installation scripts.

If you installed `uv` with `pip`, `brew`, or another package manager, update `uv` with `pip install --upgrade`, `brew upgrade`, or similar.

$ uv self update -v
DEBUG receipt is not for this executable; assuming `uv` was installed via a package manager
warning: Self-update is only available for `uv` binaries installed via the standalone installation scripts.

If you installed `uv` with `pip`, `brew`, or another package manager, update `uv` with `pip install --upgrade`, `brew upgrade`, or similar.
han@VitaminC:~/courses/cs194-llm-agents$ uv cache prune
Pruning cache at: /home/han/.cache/uv
Removed 9 files (3.2MiB)
$ uv self update -v
DEBUG receipt is not for this executable; assuming `uv` was installed via a package manager
warning: Self-update is only available for `uv` binaries installed via the standalone installation scripts.

If you installed `uv` with `pip`, `brew`, or another package manager, update `uv` with `pip install --upgrade`, `brew upgrade`, or similar.

Seems like its something related to receipt?

[zanieb]

@leehanchung Generally that means that some other uv on the system was installed after the one that you're using. What does where uv output?

[leehanchung]

@leehanchung Generally that means that some other uv on the system was installed after the one that you're using. What does where uv output?

found the issue. i had the old ~/.cargo/bin/uv. removed and working now.

thanks!!