Recently, I was faced with a situation in which the standard methods of uninstalling and reinstalling the command line tools didn’t work. Obviously, I’m not an iOS or a macOS developer, but there’s plenty of work that I do in the terminal and I need some of these tools for. Many useful tools are included such as the Apple eLLVM compiler, linker, and Make.

enables UNIX-style development via Terminal by installing command line developer tools, as well ass macOS SDK frameworks and headers. If you work both in a terminal and on a Mac, then you’re likely familiar with the Xcode Command Line Tools (and the necessary utilities they provide for things like Git, building front-end assets, etc.). You don’t need a developer account to access it. PS: even if you have a Mac with 256 gb or more of storage I think this is how you should install or update Xcode.TL DR: If the standard terminal commands don’t work for uninstalling and reinstalling the Xcode CLI tools, use this page and search for the latest version of the tools to download. This is how I will be updating or installing Xcode going forward.

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Had I known, that is what I would have done from the beginning. Which means I didn’t code as much as I usually do yesterday. Like it literally took me the whole of yesterday to update to Xcode 13.Īfter downloading over 20 gigabytes (for a download that should be just above 12 gigs), the update failed. It has been my experience for the last three or so years I’ve been using Xcode that it takes most of the day to update or install it. If you have a MacBook with 128 gigabytes of hard disk, I would strongly suggest you do not update or download Xcode via the App Store.

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