[Python] How can I install packages using `uv pip install` without creating a virtual...

I would like to install Python packages in the CI/CD pipeline using the uv package manager. I did not create a virtual environment because I would like to use the virtual machine's global Python interpreter. When I run the uv pip install <package> script, I get the following error:

Requirement already satisfied: pip in /opt/hostedtoolcache/Python/3.12.4/x64/lib/python3.12/site-packages (24.1.1)
Collecting pip
Downloading pip-24.1.2-py3-none-any.whl.metadata (3.6 kB)
Downloading pip-24.1.2-py3-none-any.whl (1.8 MB)
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 1.8/1.8 MB 32.0 MB/s eta 0:00:00
Installing collected packages: pip
Attempting uninstall: pip
Found existing installation: pip 24.1.1
Uninstalling pip-24.1.1:
Successfully uninstalled pip-24.1.1
Successfully installed pip-24.1.2
Collecting uv
Downloading uv-0.2.23-py3-none-manylinux_2_17_x86_64.manylinux2014_x86_64.whl.metadata (35 kB)
Downloading uv-0.2.23-py3-none-manylinux_2_17_x86_64.manylinux2014_x86_64.whl (13.4 MB)
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 13.4/13.4 MB 104.1 MB/s eta 0:00:00
Installing collected packages: uv
Successfully installed uv-0.2.23
error: No virtual environment found


Is it possible to install it into the global Python environment?

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