Thank heavens for this vid. Have had endless searchers trying to figure out why my CLT install has been shot for a while now, until the magical "rm". Did cross my mind but was to unsure of doing it, but this set my resolve to give it a go. Now the world is back to normal again. Thank you.
If you're on macOS Catalina or earlier, you can type in terminal `softwareupdate --ignore "name of the CLT update here"`. If you're on macOS Big Sur or later, I have not found a solution for this at this point!
After deleting the developer folder, there are still xcode-select files like you said as well as a few other system files left containing xcode in the name. They are unremovable by right-click, moving to trash, sudo rm -rf command. Would they interfere if there is ever a need to reinstall xcode? Is there a way to get rid of them completely?
What are the path locations and filenames of these files? Most of the time, if you run a fresh Xcode install it will overwrite them so you don't have to worry about it, but I'm curious about what files you're referring to!
These files are ok to leave in place! Some of them are the Xcode binaries that your Mac needs to run (like xcode-select and xcodebuild), and won't be removable. You can leave them in place with no problem
How to install Xcode CommandLineTools, and remove them! Be extremely careful removing anything with `rm -rf`!!!!
i installed it manually, and everything went ok, but i dont see it in "ls -la Library/Developer/"
Thanks for the tutorial. You had me nervous with that ‘rm -rf’ 🤣
😁 can't be too careful
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Thank heavens for this vid. Have had endless searchers trying to figure out why my CLT install has been shot for a while now, until the magical "rm". Did cross my mind but was to unsure of doing it, but this set my resolve to give it a go. Now the world is back to normal again. Thank you.
I’m glad it helped! Some of the file locations and what not make it frustrating at times for sure.
I knew a guy that meant to remove Xcode app with a script he wrote and totally wrecked his system with rm -rf / Applications/--Xcode.app--
That sounds like a bad day for them 😂. Always gotta watch out for that /
Great Tutorial!!!
Glad you liked it!
Awesome video @Swift Goose! Keep up the great work!
Thanks! You too! It's nice to see the monitors so properly aligned in all of your videos
Great video great tutorial thanks swift goose !!
Glad you liked it!
Hi, even though I deleted all the files, there’s still a prompt in System Preferences to update the CLT. How do I get rid of this??
If you're on macOS Catalina or earlier, you can type in terminal `softwareupdate --ignore "name of the CLT update here"`. If you're on macOS Big Sur or later, I have not found a solution for this at this point!
Thanks for the upload. I ended up installing through Safari since mine was busted.
Glad I could help
After deleting the developer folder, there are still xcode-select files like you said as well as a few other system files left containing xcode in the name. They are unremovable by right-click, moving to trash, sudo rm -rf command. Would they interfere if there is ever a need to reinstall xcode? Is there a way to get rid of them completely?
What are the path locations and filenames of these files? Most of the time, if you run a fresh Xcode install it will overwrite them so you don't have to worry about it, but I'm curious about what files you're referring to!
@@swift_goose /usr/share/man/man1/xcode-select.1
/System/Library/Automator/Build Xcode Project.action
/usr/share/zsh/5.8/functions/_xcode-select
/usr/bin/xcodebuild
/usr/bin/xcode-select
These files are ok to leave in place! Some of them are the Xcode binaries that your Mac needs to run (like xcode-select and xcodebuild), and won't be removable. You can leave them in place with no problem
Hey I cant install it it always says Can't install the software because it is currently not available from the Software Update server.
It makes me wonder if there is something going on with Apples software update server. What macOS version are you on?
I get the same error message. Mine is high sierra
You can try doing a ‘softwareupdate -clear-catalog’ in Terminal to see if that fixes any issues on macOS Catalina or lower
@@swift_goose Hey thanks for the answer I updated Catalian to Big Sur and installed the xcode and it worked.
thankssss ✨
When i try to delete it it says access denied
Permission denied
Did you run the removal command as `sudo` or the root user?
How to deliver it
What do you mean?
Thank you!!!!
You're welcome! Glad you enjoyed it!
download takes foreverrrr
Supply chain issues 😂
i cant uninstall mine says permision denied
Did you try running the uninstall commands as root user, or using sudo?