Accordingly, this tutorial is aimed at users who do not want to install the broader Xcode development package, and would rather only have the command line utilities installed instead.
Getting an error message that says “Can’t install the software because it is not currently available from the Software Update server”? Well you’re in luck, because that error message probably indicates you already have Xcode installed on the Mac.įrom Mac OS X 10.9 onward, if Xcode is already installed in Mac OS X then Command Line Tools becomes installed as well (you can check this by trying to run gcc or make from the terminal). Yacc Troubleshooting “not currently available” error If you want to see the 61 new commands available to you, they’re all in /Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/usr/bin/ but we have also listed them alphabetically below for convenience: Note that directory is the root /Library of Mac OS, not a user ~/Library directory. You can browse through that directory if you want to, or you can just have awareness of it just in case you want to modify or adjust any of the package at a later time. Enjoy your new unix command line toolkit! What Installs with Command Line Tools and Whereįor those interested in knowing the details of what is installed on their Mac and where it’s going, the entire command line toolkit package gets placed in the following directory:
This also means you can compile and install things from source code directly without having to use a package manager. Assuming the installation went uninterrupted, the command will execute as expected. The installer goes away on its own when complete, and you can then confirm everything is working by trying to use one of the commands that were just installed, like gcc, git, svn, rebase, make, ld, otool, nm, whatever you want from the list below.