diff --git a/CHANGELOG.adoc b/CHANGELOG.adoc
index 0caba7241..c41ba088b 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.adoc
+++ b/CHANGELOG.adoc
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ Release with new features and bugfixes:
 * https://github.com/devonfw/IDEasy/issues/1719[#1719]: Add Rust and MSVC support
 * https://github.com/devonfw/IDEasy/issues/1991[#1991]: Improve WindowsHelperMock
 * https://github.com/devonfw/IDEasy/issues/1457[#1457]: Improve CLI error messages on invalid args or commandlets not available in current context
+* https://github.com/devonfw/IDEasy/issues/1965[#1965]: Improve dependent installations for npm and pip based commandlets
 
 The full list of changes for this release can be found in https://github.com/devonfw/IDEasy/milestone/45?closed=1[milestone 2026.06.001].
 
diff --git a/cli/src/main/java/com/devonfw/tools/ide/tool/npm/NpmBasedCommandlet.java b/cli/src/main/java/com/devonfw/tools/ide/tool/npm/NpmBasedCommandlet.java
index 93eeb3976..afe80bcdd 100644
--- a/cli/src/main/java/com/devonfw/tools/ide/tool/npm/NpmBasedCommandlet.java
+++ b/cli/src/main/java/com/devonfw/tools/ide/tool/npm/NpmBasedCommandlet.java
@@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ private VersionIdentifier runPackageManagerGetInstalledVersion(String npmPackage
     ProcessContext pc = this.context.newProcess().errorHandling(ProcessErrorHandling.THROW_CLI)
         .withExitCodeAcceptor(rc -> true); // if the tool is not installed npm list will end with exit code 1
     request.setProcessContext(pc);
-    ProcessResult result = runPackageManager(request);
+    ProcessResult result = runPackageManager(request, true);
     if (result.isSuccessful()) {
       List<String> versions = result.getOut();
       String parsedVersion = null;
@@ -84,4 +84,10 @@ private VersionIdentifier runPackageManagerGetInstalledVersion(String npmPackage
     return null;
   }
 
+  @Override
+  protected boolean isSkipInstallation() {
+    Npm npm = this.context.getCommandletManager().getCommandlet(Npm.class);
+    return npm.isInstalled();
+  }
+
 }
diff --git a/cli/src/main/java/com/devonfw/tools/ide/tool/pip/PipBasedCommandlet.java b/cli/src/main/java/com/devonfw/tools/ide/tool/pip/PipBasedCommandlet.java
index b94a4124d..e096c43ef 100644
--- a/cli/src/main/java/com/devonfw/tools/ide/tool/pip/PipBasedCommandlet.java
+++ b/cli/src/main/java/com/devonfw/tools/ide/tool/pip/PipBasedCommandlet.java
@@ -110,7 +110,7 @@ protected VersionIdentifier computeInstalledVersion() {
     }
     PackageManagerRequest request = new PackageManagerRequest("show", getPackageName()).setProcessMode(ProcessMode.DEFAULT_CAPTURE)
         .setProcessContext(this.context.newProcess().errorHandling(ProcessErrorHandling.NONE));
-    ProcessResult processResult = runPackageManager(request);
+    ProcessResult processResult = runPackageManager(request, true);
     if (processResult.isSuccessful()) {
       for (String line : processResult.getOut()) {
         // we are looking for something like "Version: 25.3"