diff --git a/CONTRIBUTORS b/CONTRIBUTORS
index fc3bc44e6..327e37f27 100644
--- a/CONTRIBUTORS
+++ b/CONTRIBUTORS
@@ -233,6 +233,7 @@ Spiritual Father <https://github.com/spiritualfather>
 Emmanuel Ferdman <https://github.com/emmanuel-ferdman>
 Sunong2008 <https://github.com/Sunrongguo2008>
 Marvin Kopf <marvinkopf@outlook.com>
+Kevin Nakamura <grinkers@grinkers.net>
 ********************
 
 The text of the 3 clause BSD license follows:
diff --git a/qt/launcher/src/main.rs b/qt/launcher/src/main.rs
index 629fbd881..8d5328f73 100644
--- a/qt/launcher/src/main.rs
+++ b/qt/launcher/src/main.rs
@@ -284,6 +284,32 @@ fn main_menu_loop(state: &State) -> Result<()> {
                 // Remove sync marker before attempting sync
                 let _ = remove_file(&state.sync_complete_marker);
 
+                println!("\x1B[1mInstalling Managed Python...\x1B[0m\n");
+
+                // `uv sync` does not pull in Python automatically, unlike `uv run`.
+                // This might be system/platform specific and/or a uv bug.
+                let mut command = Command::new(&state.uv_path);
+                command
+                    .current_dir(&state.uv_install_root)
+                    .env("UV_CACHE_DIR", &state.uv_cache_dir)
+                    .env("UV_PYTHON_INSTALL_DIR", &state.uv_python_install_dir)
+                    .args(["python", "install"]);
+
+                // Add python version if .python-version file exists
+                if state.user_python_version_path.exists() {
+                    let python_version = read_file(&state.user_python_version_path)?;
+                    let python_version_str = String::from_utf8(python_version)
+                        .context("Invalid UTF-8 in .python-version")?;
+                    let python_version_trimmed = python_version_str.trim();
+                    command.args([python_version_trimmed]);
+                }
+
+                if let Err(e) = command.ensure_success() {
+                    println!("Managed Python Install failed: {e:#}");
+                    println!();
+                    continue;
+                }
+
                 // Sync the venv
                 let mut command = Command::new(&state.uv_path);
                 command