16 Responses for "How To Uninstall Xcode Completely"

1. powers March 30th, 2009 at 8:10 am 1

   Thanks for making this available in your blog. Found it quick and easy from a google search! Great post.

2. whoosierdad May 31st, 2009 at 12:07 am 2

   i tried to uninstall xcode using the command in the terminal, however, i get a message saying “command not found”

3. whoosierdad May 31st, 2009 at 12:11 am 3

   to add to my frustration, i just put Leopard on my Imac. I then launched what i thought was xcode 3.0 only to find out that it was xcode 2.1. So i then tried to install xcode 3.0 over that and it will not launch. If anyone could help me with this issue, I would greatly appreciate it.

4. Pushkar Arora May 31st, 2009 at 1:36 pm 4

   Make sure that that you copy paste the exact command in the terminal window. That should uninstall any version of Xcode. After that you can install a fresh copy of it.

5. Alvinus Melius June 17th, 2009 at 6:38 am 5

   Thanks for posting this. I had been trying to uninstall for over 10 minutes and kept getting a “command not found” message. I googled and found this post. Turns out I was missing the forward slash at the start of the directory name.

6. Hasan Khalil June 30th, 2009 at 10:34 pm 6

   Exactly what I was looking for. Of note, if you’ve installed Xcode to a non-default location, you’ll (obviously?) need to change ‘/Developer/’ above to the path where you installed the developer tools to. In my case, it was ‘/Volumes/Dev/Developer/’.

7. geekoid December 21st, 2009 at 10:04 am 7

   Exceptional tip. Thanks for this. I had to strip out the Xcode naughtiness I had done and reinstall fresh. Works perfectly. Merry Christmas to you!

8. Mark Kelly January 17th, 2010 at 2:00 am 8

   I’m still getting command not found after pasting the line directly from this site.

   I suspect the problem may be that my Developer folder does not actually contain a library folder. Do you have any suggestions?

9. Charles January 19th, 2010 at 10:21 am 9

   Hey dude, thanks for the tip but.. when i’m tried to copile in C languaje the terminal send me a error message like this: gcc it’s not a valid command. Can you help me please?

   I almost forgotten ask you if you know about a software in mac for programing on C languaje of curse something that not be the terminal ^^

   P.S. i’m sorry if my english isn’t good but… i only have a basic level in english

10. Pushkar Arora January 19th, 2010 at 11:15 am 10

    Hi Charles,

    Eclipse is a good IDE for C programming on mac. Here is the link:
    http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/

11. Pushkar Arora January 19th, 2010 at 11:17 am 11

    Hi Mark
    You will have to see where you installed Xcode and then instead of Developer/Library write that path name in the command.

12. Charles January 20th, 2010 at 5:15 am 12

    Thanks you i found the problem i only reinstall xcode was easy ^^

13. AVEbrahimi April 19th, 2010 at 6:17 am 13

    Thanks, latest XCode doesnt like compiling for older iPhone OS versions, now I reinstalled XCode 3.2.2

14. Mahesh Jain May 24th, 2010 at 9:57 am 14

    Thanks for this post. It was easy and fast to uninstall xcode completely.

15. bobby July 1st, 2010 at 8:53 pm 15

    Hi,
    I am a beginner C programmer and am new to xcode. I am using the book “Learning C on Mac” and in that book, it tells me to use the standard tool from the command line utility to create the first program. The problem is that I have xcode 3.2.3 and in that version there command utility can’t be found int the sidebar and thus no standard tool. So, I uninstalled using the this method and I assumed that I successfully got rid of it cause I searched for it in finder and nothing showed up. I didn’t restart and I re-installed it.

    How do I get the command line utility?

16. Pushkar Arora July 1st, 2010 at 9:51 pm 16

    The command line is the ‘Terminal’ application in your Mac. You can find Terminal in you Mac by going to Applications >> Utilities. No need to uninstall XCode for that!