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 ## Installation
 
+We strongly recommend installing FastMCP with [uv](https://docs.astral.sh/uv/), as it is required for deploying servers:
+
 ```bash
-# We strongly recommend installing with uv
-brew install uv  # on macOS
 uv pip install fastmcp
 ```
 
-Or with pip:
+Note: on macOS, uv may need to be installed with Homebrew (`brew install uv`) in order to make it available to the Claude Desktop app.
+
+Alternatively, to use the SDK without deploying, you may use pip:
+
 ```bash
 pip install fastmcp
 ```
 
-See the [Contributing](#contributing) section for information on how to contribute to FastMCP.
-
 ## Quickstart
 
 Let's create a simple MCP server that exposes a calculator tool and some data: