If you already have git installed, you would get a prompt to guide you through the installation of command line developer tools. Provide the root password to remove the command line tools. sudo rm -r -f /Library/Developer/CommandLineTools

For the next set of commands, you need sudo privileges to run successfully. Knowing the path to the currently installed command line tools from the previous step, You can now go ahead and remove it from the system. The result of the above command /Library/Developer/CommandLineTools Step 2 Reinstall command line tools by removing the previously installed version Step 1įirst, get the location of the installed command line tools by running the command below: xcode-select -print-path The above command should work in most cases, but if for some reasons it does not work for you, then you can go through the lengthy process of a reinstall as outlined in solution 2 Solution 2

Run the following command with sudo to reset your command-line tools. The result of xcode-select -install should start the reinstallation process but if you get the result in the image below then you already have command line tools installed xcode-select: error: command line tools are already installed, use “Software Update” to install updates Solution 1 The funny thing is am so sure I have command line tools installed. Well if you are wondering if that was my entire error? It is not even close.

What I immediately noticed from my terminal is this new shinny error about gyp: No Xcode or CLT version detected any time I ran either yarn install or npm install Did you recently update your macOS Catalina to version 10.15.2? If you did, then you probably in the same boat too.

Xcode version command line