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Getting Command Line tools update which I don't want
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Command Line Tools are not just part of Xcode. They are required by other things - e.g. Homebrew. To completely remove them may need a clean install
If you had it in the past, that would be one reason for the tools being installed.
A web search finds links like https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/308943/how-do-i-uninstall-the-command-line-tools-for-xcode about removing them.
Thanks, it seems like you have to disable SIP to remove them all.
A little bit silly.
Maybe this Terminal command might work without disabling SIP:
sudo rm -rf /Library/Developer/CommandLineTools
Or did you already delete that complete Developer folder?
Yeah already deleted it, I will try disabling SIP tomorrow and try to delete the rest of the junk left on my drive.
Cheers 👍🏻
I got that update too, but I recently installed homebrew. Seems I am to supid to get it running from the path the Terminal normally starts in. What I had to type in Terminal directly after installation didn't work and editing two files that didn't exist, as another solution, also didn't work. I created too files with that name in the folder I thought they could belong. But it didn't change anything.
Don't know if anything changed in macOS 15, but in 14 I got it to work somehow for at least the time I closed the Terminal app again.
A few years ago it just worked after installation and nothing needs to be done.
Seems everything is getting more complicated every year. I disabled SIP, set the Security settings where I had to boot into too to the lowest level and also disabled Gatekeeper. Now many apps I need just work again without several confirmations or strange xattr-commands.
Don't know if anything changed in macOS 15, but in 14 I got it to work somehow for at least the time I closed the Terminal app again.
A few years ago it just worked after installation and nothing needs to be done.
Seems everything is getting more complicated every year. I disabled SIP, set the Security settings where I had to boot into too to the lowest level and also disabled Gatekeeper. Now many apps I need just work again without several confirmations or strange xattr-commands.