Update for Command line for Xcode but Xcode is NOT installed

[DianaofThemiscyra]

Hi everyone in the past few days the updates on the image are available for download, the problem is I never installed Xcode, nor I can find anything from Xcode installed. I'm NOT a developer and I would prefer to eliminate those updates, specially because they are big, flagged for download automatically so every time I have to un-flag them otherwise it will download.

Is there a way to know if any program uses this command line for Xcode? Is there a way to delete that (even though I can't find anything on my MacBook)?

Please help me.

Thanks in advance to everyone who will answer me.

 

[bogdanw]

Is there a way to know if any program uses this command line for Xcode?

Homebrew
"macOS Requirements
Command Line Tools (CLT) for Xcode (from xcode-select --install or https://developer.apple.com/download/all/) or Xcode 3"
https://docs.brew.sh/Installation

Unrelated related
"Brewing Trouble: Homebrew Spoofed Sites on the Rise"
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[DianaofThemiscyra]

Homebrew
"macOS Requirements
Command Line Tools (CLT) for Xcode (from xcode-select --install or https://developer.apple.com/download/all/) or Xcode 3"
https://docs.brew.sh/Installation

Unrelated related
"Brewing Trouble: Homebrew Spoofed Sites on the Rise"
https://the-sequence.com/brewing-trouble-homebrew-spoofed-sites-rise

Thanks for your reply bogdanw. Is there a way to UNINSTALL the command line tools? I tried to instal home-brew years ago but was never able to make it work, so I uninstalled it, but as I see it left these command lines tools lost somewhere inside my hard disk.

 

[bogdanw]

Is there a way to UNINSTALL the command line tools?

Delete /Library/Developer/CommandLineTools

 

[DianaofThemiscyra]

Delete /Library/Developer/CommandLineTools

Good morning bogdanw,

sorry for my late answer. I don't seem to find this directory anywhere on my MacBook.

Is it hidden or "protected" with a special attribute?

Thank you and sorry again for my late answer.

 

[bogdanw]

Run in Terminal:

xcode-select --print-path

to find out where Command Line Tools are installed.

More details https://developer.apple.com/library...1-HOW_CAN_I_UNINSTALL_THE_COMMAND_LINE_TOOLS_

 

[DianaofThemiscyra]

Thanks for the code bogdanw... all I got for it is: "fg: no current job"... what this means?

Edit: typo

 

[DianaofThemiscyra]

I realised I made a mistake while copying and pasting the code... I did it again and this time the output was this:

"xcode-select: error: Unable to get active developer directory. Use `sudo xcode-select --switch path/to/Xcode.app` to set one (or see `man xcode-select`)"

 

[bogdanw]

That result suggests the CommandLineTools folder has been deleted.

Try

pkgutil --files com.apple.pkg.CLTools_Executables

to see where they were originally installed.

 

[DianaofThemiscyra]

Good morning bogdanw,

and thanks for your help. I copied and pasted the command on terminal and it gave a very long list of files (I attached a.txt file so you can see everything).

All the files seem to be inside the directory CommandLineTools and subdirectories, but as I said CommandLinesTools directory is not there, so I don't understand how can everything is still be installed .

 

[bogdanw]

Try to run

pkgutil --forget com.apple.pkg.CLTools_Executables

and reboot. Maybe the updates will no longer be visible.

 

[DianaofThemiscyra]

Thanks again bogdanw. I copied and pasted the command on terminal and the output was:

Unknown error Error Domain=NSPOSIXErrorDomain Code=2 "No such file or directory".
Forgot package 'com.apple.pkg.CLTools_Executables' on '/'.

I will try restarting the Macbook anyway.

Edit: Macbook restarted and updates are still there.

 

[bogdanw]

Does

ls -a /Library/Developer/

return anything?
Maybe the folder is hidden.

 

[DianaofThemiscyra]

It returns this: . ..

 

[DianaofThemiscyra]

It returns this: . ..

Edit: I opened /Library/Developer on finder... and it's empty as before.

 

[bogdanw]

Probably the best solution would be to install the updates, check where they have been installed and delete them.

Another, untested, option is to run

pkgutil --pkgs | grep "com.apple.pkg.CLTools*"

in order to identify all pkgs related to Command Line Tools and use pkgutil --forget for each one.

Maybe someone else has other ideas. @Slartibart

 

[DianaofThemiscyra]

I decided to follow bogdanw's advice.. I installed the updates, restarted, deleted the directory Developer, restarted again. I see I have recovered the disk space used by the directory... now I just have to wait and see if in future such updates will appear again.
A big thanks to you, @bogdanw, not only for answering me but also for being spending a bit of your time trying to help me.