Installing with pydata dependencies fail

[Azaya89]

Following the instructions found in the getting started guide, I tried installing holoviz-mcp with the pydata dependencies but it fails. Removing the pydata part works though:

~ uv tool install holoviz-mcp[pydata]
zsh: no matches found: holoviz-mcp[pydata]

[MarcSkovMadsen]

Thanks @Azaya89

I cannot reproduce. I see:

Can you provide some more information?

If you have previously tried installing it might try to install an older version of holoviz-mcp without the additional pydata dependencies. Try forcing it to install the latest version.

I'm not using zsh. Could it be the [ or ] that is a problem in zsh? Does it work if you run uv tool install "holoviz-mcp[pydata]".

[Azaya89]

Yeah, it was the [] that was the problem:

(base) ➜  ~ uv tool install "holoviz-mcp[pydata]"
Resolved 211 packages in 834ms
      Built multitasking==0.0.12
Prepared 18 packages in 3.11s
Installed 18 packages in 79ms
 + altair==6.0.0
 + curl-cffi==0.13.0
 + duckdb==1.4.3
 + frozendict==2.4.7
 + iniconfig==2.3.0
 + joblib==1.5.3
 + multitasking==0.0.12
 + peewee==3.19.0
 + pluggy==1.6.0
 + polars==1.37.1
 + polars-runtime-32==1.37.1
 + pytest==9.0.2
 + pytz==2025.2
 + scikit-learn==1.8.0
 + scipy==1.17.0
 + seaborn==0.13.2
 + threadpoolctl==3.6.0
 + yfinance==1.0
Installed 2 executables: display-server, holoviz-mcp

[MarcSkovMadsen]

Addressed by updating the documentation.