Uninstall Rye
How to uninstall Rye on Mac. Installing and using UV instead of Rye for Python development.
Until September 2024, Rye was a leading favorite among tools for managing a Python development environment. More recently, UV is now preferred over Rye.
Rye's features are being merged into UV, so the ecosystem is consolidating around UV as a single coherent setup and packaging system for Python. Rye is still usable and maintained, but UV is now preferred, and recommended as a successor project from the same maintainers.
This guide describes how to uninstall Rye. After uninstalling Rye, I recommend installing and using UV.
Before you get started
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Uninstall Rye
Here's how to remove Rye, if you decide not to use it.
$ rye self uninstall
✔ Do you want to uninstall rye? · yes
Done!
Don't forget to remove the sourcing of $HOME/.rye/env from your shell config.
Rye will uninstall itself but you will need to delete the ~/.rye/ hidden directory in your user home directory.
$ rm -rf ~/.rye/
Finally, use a text editor to remove this line from your ~/.zprofile file:
source "$HOME/.rye/env"
You've uninstalled Rye.
Install UV
UV streamlines Python development by offering a single coherent setup and packaging system, eliminating the need for separate tools such as pip, pip-tools, pipx, poetry, pyenv, or virtualenv. For any project more complex than a simple script, use UV to install Python and software libraries. UV is extremely fast (10-100x faster than pip), making your workflow more efficient.
Here's a guide to installing UV:
What's next
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