diff --git a/R/install.R b/R/install.R
index 62e83a312..0c7e33f48 100644
--- a/R/install.R
+++ b/R/install.R
@@ -170,6 +170,8 @@ use_backend <- function(backend, gpu = NA) {
     reticulate::import("os")$environ$update(list(KERAS_BACKEND = backend))
   }
 
+  set_envvar("UV_CONSTRAINT", pkg_file("keras-constraints.txt"),
+             action = "append", sep = " ", unique = TRUE)
 
   switch(
     paste0(get_os(), "_", backend),
@@ -222,11 +224,11 @@ use_backend <- function(backend, gpu = NA) {
         gpu <- has_gpu()
 
       if (gpu) {
+        uv_unset_override_tf_cpu()
         py_require(action = "remove", c("tensorflow", "tensorflow-cpu"))
         py_require("tensorflow[and-cuda]")
       } else {
-        py_require(action = "remove", c("tensorflow", "tensorflow[and-cuda]"))
-        py_require("tensorflow-cpu")
+        uv_set_override_tf_cpu()
       }
     },
 
@@ -234,6 +236,7 @@ use_backend <- function(backend, gpu = NA) {
       py_require(action = "remove",
                  c("tensorflow", "tensorflow[and-cuda]",
                    "jax[cuda12]", "jax[cpu]"))
+      uv_set_override_tf_cpu()
 
       if (is.na(gpu))
         gpu <- has_gpu()
@@ -248,6 +251,7 @@ use_backend <- function(backend, gpu = NA) {
 
     Linux_torch = {
       py_require(c("tensorflow", "tensorflow[and-cuda]"), action = "remove")
+      uv_set_override_tf_cpu()
 
       if (is.na(gpu))
         gpu <- has_gpu()
@@ -264,6 +268,7 @@ use_backend <- function(backend, gpu = NA) {
     },
 
     Linux_numpy = {
+      uv_set_override_tf_cpu()
       py_require(c("tensorflow", "tensorflow[and-cuda]"), action = "remove")
       py_require(c("tensorflow-cpu", "numpy", "jax[cpu]"))
     },
@@ -301,8 +306,62 @@ use_backend <- function(backend, gpu = NA) {
   invisible(backend)
 }
 
+set_envvar <- function(
+  name,
+  value,
+  action = c("replace", "append", "prepend"),
+  sep = .Platform$path.sep,
+  unique = FALSE
+) {
+  old <- Sys.getenv(name, NA)
+
+  if (is.null(value) || is.na(value)) {
+    Sys.unsetenv(name)
+    return(invisible(old))
+  }
+
+  if (!is.na(old)) {
+    value <- switch(
+      match.arg(action),
+      replace = value,
+      append = paste(old, value, sep = sep),
+      prepend = paste(value, old, sep = sep)
+    )
+    if (unique) {
+      value <- unique(unlist(strsplit(value, sep, fixed = TRUE)))
+      value <- paste0(value, collapse = sep)
+    }
+  }
+
+  value <- list(value)
+  names(value) <- name
+  do.call(Sys.setenv, value)
+  invisible(old)
+}
 
+uv_set_override_tf_cpu <- function() {
+  py_require(action = "remove", c(
+    "tensorflow", "tensorflow[and-cuda]", "tensorflow-cpu",
+    "tensorflow-metal", "tensorflow-macos"
+  ))
+  py_require(if (is_linux()) "tensorflow-cpu" else "tensorflow")
+  set_envvar("UV_OVERRIDE", pkg_file("tf-cpu-override.txt"),
+             action = "append", sep = " ", unique = TRUE)
+}
 
+uv_unset_override_tf_cpu <- function() {
+  override <- Sys.getenv("UV_OVERRIDE", NA)
+  if (is.na(override)) return()
+  cpu_override <- pkg_file("tf-cpu-override.txt")
+  if (override == cpu_override) {
+    Sys.unsetenv(override)
+  } else {
+    new <- gsub(cpu_override, "", override, fixed = TRUE)
+    new <- gsub(" +", " ", new)
+    Sys.setenv("UV_OVERRIDE" = new)
+  }
+  invisible(override)
+}
 
 get_os <- function() {
   if (is_windows()) "Windows" else if (is_mac_arm64()) "macOS" else "Linux"
@@ -321,6 +380,13 @@ is_keras_loaded <- function() {
   !exists("module", envir = keras)
 }
 
+pkg_file <- function(..., package = "keras3") {
+  path <- system.file(..., package = "keras3", mustWork = TRUE)
+  if(is_windows())
+    path <- utils::shortPathName(path)
+  path
+}
+
 
 has_gpu <- function() {
 
diff --git a/inst/keras-constraints.txt b/inst/keras-constraints.txt
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..a2780d921
--- /dev/null
+++ b/inst/keras-constraints.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+
+# unconstrained keras-hub in a larger requirements list might resolve to v0.19.0,
+# which is over a year old and generally what people want, and arguably a bug with `uv`.
+# This is a workaround to nudge uv to resolve the latest keras-hub.
+keras-hub>0.19.0
+
+
+# tensorflow-text 2.19.* fails to load with tensorflow-cpu>=2.19.0
+tensorflow-cpu==2.18.*
diff --git a/inst/tf-cpu-override.txt b/inst/tf-cpu-override.txt
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..189aaddab
--- /dev/null
+++ b/inst/tf-cpu-override.txt
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+tensorflow; sys_platform == "never"
diff --git a/tools/install.R b/tools/install.R
new file mode 100755
index 000000000..e1bf00e39
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tools/install.R
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+#!/usr/bin/Rscript
+
+remotes::install_local(force = TRUE)