Every time I update llm I have to reinstall all plugins, like gemini and ollama....

simonw · 2025-05-27T21:34:39 1748381679

Sorry about that! Presumably you're updating via Homebrew? That blows away your virtual environment, hence why the plugins all go missing.

I have an idea to fix that by writing a 'plugins.txt' file somewhere with all of your installed plugins and then re-installing any that go missing - issue for that is here: https://github.com/simonw/llm/issues/575

sorenjan · 2025-05-27T21:53:24 1748382804

No, I'm using uv tool just like in that issue. I'll keep an eye on it, at least I know it's not just me.

tionis · 2025-05-27T22:15:10 1748384110

I'm also using uv tools and fixed it by doing something like this to upgrade:

uv tool install llm --upgrade --upgrade --with llm-openrouter --with llm-cmd ...

tinodb · 2025-05-29T06:02:02 1748498522

Same, but put that in a llm-upgrade.sh because the list was getting quite long :)

johnisgood · 2025-05-28T06:46:45 1748414805

Is the double "--upgrade" a typo?

tionis · 2025-05-28T07:00:26 1748415626

Yes, autocorrect on my phone worked against me

varyherb · 2025-05-28T00:40:59 1748392859

I was running into this too until I started upgrading with

llm install -U llm

instead of

uv tool upgrade llm

(the latter of which is recommended by simonw in the original post)

simonw · 2025-05-28T01:39:03 1748396343

Thanks! I didn't realize "llm install -U llm" did that. I'll add that to the upgrade docs.