Run softwareupdate -i 'Command Line Tools (macOS El Capitan version 10.11) for Xcode-8.2'. The quotes are important. 4: I faced similar problem on MacOS Mojave version 10.14.3 with Xcode 10.3 installed. The real problem was, when I installed the Xcode 10.3, I deleted the “Xcode-beta.app” first.
This guide is geared towards MacOS Monterey 12, macOS Big Sur 11, macOS Catalina, macOS Mojave 10.14.x, 10.13 High Sierra, 10.12 Sierra, OS X 10.11 El Capitan, OS X 10.10 Yosemite, and Mac OS X 10.9, and newer releases. Xcode - Wikipedia has a complete compatibility listing for Xcode, what version works with which version of OS X. It also includes a listing of versions of Xcode’s support libraries for things like iOS and iWatch, for each version.
Question or issue on macOS:
I am trying to update Command line tools on my mac osx.
But when I run the update command, I get this error:
This doesn’t work either:
What is the exact string I should specify after sofwareupdate -i?
How to solve this problem?
Solution no. 1:
For future travelers, here’s a version-agnostic approach. First, run softwareupdate --list. This will probably take a couple of minutes. When it’s done, you’ll see a bulleted (with an asterisk) output like this:
Find the bullet that refers to the Xcode command line tools. Copy that entire line (except the asterisk…). In the above case, you would copy: Command Line Tools (macOS High Sierra version 10.13) for Xcode-10.1
Then, run the install command (as shown by Brendan Shanks) with what you copied inside quotes:
Solution no. 2:
I’m going to answer a slightly different question here, because this question came up when I searched for a solution to my problem. Hopefully it’ll help someone (and it’ll surely help me next time I run into the same issue).
I wanted to upgrade the command line tools from version 8 to 9. The App Store didn’t suggest this upgrade, and neither did softwareupdate --list.
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installed the new version of the tools. But clang --version still gave 8.0.0 as the version number. xcode-select -r and rebooting didn’t solve this issue.
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xcode-select -p returned /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer, and clang --version reported an installation directory under there. I thought I’d start over again.
deleted version 8 of the tools. But xcode-select --install said the command line tools were already installed.
Now, sudo xcode-select -p returns /Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/.
It seems that the problem was that the new version of the tools are installed to a different directory, and xcode-select -r is not clever enough to find the latest version.
Solution no. 3:
Run softwareupdate -i 'Command Line Tools (macOS El Capitan version 10.11) for Xcode-8.2'. The quotes are important.
Solution no. 4:
I faced similar problem on MacOS Mojave version 10.14.3 with Xcode 10.3 installed.
The real problem was, when I installed the Xcode 10.3, I deleted the “Xcode-beta.app” first and then installed the new version. Therefore, when I tried installing CLion for C++ development and configuring it, CMake gave me error And Updating Command Line Tool didnt work for me:
and showed me this response in terminal
Then I tried to check the version of Clang using:
And the response lead me to the real problem i.e. Active Developer path was still pointing to Old version of Xcode that I had already deleted.
Therefore, I switched the active developer path to latest Xcode App installed using:
And everything worked like a charm automatically.
Solution no. 5:
I ran the same command with sudo and that did the trick.
sudo softwareupdate -i 'Command Line Tools (macOS El Capitan version 10.11) for Xcode-8.2'
Solution no. 6:
when upgrading to MacOS Catalina, Version 10.15.* you can install the command line tools for xcode 11.3 like this: