Installation¶

renovate-apply installs like any Python command-line tool. It also shells out to a few programs that it does not bundle, listed further down.

Install the tool¶

uv (recommended)uvx (no install)pipx

uv tool install renovate-apply

uvx renovate-apply --dry-run

pipx install renovate-apply

The package installs two commands, renovate-apply and rnv. They are the same thing; rnv is shorter to type.

Check that it worked:

rnv --version

Install Renovate¶

The scan is a real Renovate run, so Renovate has to be available.

Install it (faster)Let npx fetch it

npm i -g renovate

A renovate already on your PATH starts in about a second.

Install Node.js and do nothing else. Without a renovate on PATH, the tool calls npx --yes --package renovate@latest -- renovate, which downloads and caches the package on first use.

To pin a version instead of using whatever is installed, pass --renovate-version. That always goes through npx:

rnv --renovate-version 43.224.0

Optional pieces¶

Program	When you need it
`uv`	Only if a `pyproject.toml` you update has a `uv.lock` beside it. See Commits and lock files.
`gh`	Any run, really. It supplies the GitHub token that keeps lookups from being rate limited.

If uv is missing when a lock file needs refreshing, the run stops and says so. Pass --no-lock to skip that step and update the lock file yourself.

From source¶

For a development checkout, see Development.