aider-install

A streamlined installer for the aider AI coding assistant.

Quickly install aider

python -m pip install aider-install
aider-install

Features

• Sets up aider and its dependencies in an isolated environment
• Automatically installs Python 3.12 if not present
• Uses uv for fast, reliable Python package management
• Zero configuration needed
• Only 2 packages are installed in the original python environment: uv and aider-install. No other dependencies pollute your original python environment.

Requirements

• macOS, Linux, or Windows
• Python 3.8+ (Python 3.12 will be installed if needed)

How it works

1. Running python -m pip install aider-install installs:

• The very minimal aider-install package, which provides the aider-install command.
• The uv python package as its only dependency.

2. Running aider-install does this:

uv tool install --python python3.12 aider-chat
uv tool update-shell

Documentation

• Aider documentation
• uv package manager

Support

For issues with the installer, please open a GitHub issue. For aider usage questions, see the aider documentation.