70 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!

17. Mayank July 17th, 2010 at 8:16 pm 17

    it says, type in the password otherwise u will loose important system files….i dnt have a passowrd….now wat do i do?

18. Graham Whitehouse July 18th, 2010 at 5:12 pm 18

    Awesome, thanks very much for the tip! Worked perfectly!

19. lansade August 8th, 2010 at 2:38 pm 19

    “sudo: /etc/sudoers is mode 0644, should be 0440
    Segmentation fault
    ”
    What can I do ?

20. Andrei August 27th, 2010 at 10:18 pm 20

    Thanks!! i got 8 GB back from my macbook pro!

21. karim October 17th, 2010 at 11:31 pm 21

    thanks mate

22. Sarandeep Rangar March 4th, 2011 at 11:13 am 22

    Thanks bro, very helpful everybody having trouble with the command not found error, please refer back to your macintosh HD and go to developers and library and check if there is a uninstall-devtools there. If not the try searching for it and change the location to wherever it was moved/installed.

23. Mike Lawrence March 18th, 2011 at 12:50 am 23

    I suspect that those (like me) who get the “command not found” error despite pasting correctly are folks who installed xcode 4 via the app store.

24. Harsh March 31st, 2011 at 11:43 am 24

    thanks!!

25. Vlad April 14th, 2011 at 12:41 pm 25

    Thanks!
    For me – uninstalling Xcode before installing new version was VITAL because I use virtual Mac OS X in VirtualBox and having lack of free space (-2.93 Gb)
    (now I’m upgraded from 3.2.3 to 4.0.1

26. ken May 26th, 2011 at 7:14 pm 26

    Is there anybody familiar with this message:

    Interface Builder was unable to determine the type of “testXcode.xcodeproj

    Thats what happen when i try to reopen an old project.
    If anybody can help please
    Thanx.

27. Davide June 5th, 2011 at 5:05 pm 27

    Thanks for the Tip!

28. Jose June 9th, 2011 at 7:54 am 28

    Thank god for this blog! I finally found the way to uninstall Xcode. Thank you guys.

29. Acooarioom June 9th, 2011 at 5:18 pm 29

    THANKS!! MY MAC GOT ITS 10GB BACK!

30. Steve June 17th, 2011 at 2:54 am 30

    Hi Guys,

    I struggled with removing it not being a Mac person by trade and just removed the starting $ from the pasted bash command and it works.

31. Joe June 19th, 2011 at 9:18 pm 31

    Thanks. The first couple times I tried this it didn’t work but now that I reset my password and my root password it worked great. Thanks again.

32. babass June 28th, 2011 at 3:51 pm 32

    great post !

33. Cam July 2nd, 2011 at 2:05 am 33

    Excellent! Works like a charm. Thanks for sharing your knowledge!

34. Satya July 16th, 2011 at 10:10 am 34

    Hi Pankaj,

    I need your assistance in un installing the XCODE in my MAC.

    Senario is that, i have two XCODE versions(3.2 and 4.3) installed in different paths in same system.

    As i’m facing so many problems with this two versions in one system.

    My concern is that i want to uninstall XCODE totally from my system.

    kindly let me know any procedure in this.

35. Satya July 16th, 2011 at 10:10 am 35

    Thanks in advance.

36. Alan July 16th, 2011 at 9:35 pm 36

    Finally some uninstall code that works!
    Cheers

37. Content Writer July 30th, 2011 at 2:13 am 37

    Thanks buddy, Worked like a charm.

    I just installed previous version of Xcode 4 as I have recently upgraded to Mac OS X Lion and now need to install Xcode 4.1 available for free at Mac App Store.

    Thanks anyways!

38. Cams July 30th, 2011 at 9:06 pm 38

    Great Post!!!

39. Neezio August 19th, 2011 at 2:29 pm 39

    Awesome! This was a huge lifesaver when we needed to step down from the new Beta to an older XCode release so we could upgrade some of our older projects.

40. Nilesh September 12th, 2011 at 5:07 pm 40

    Thanks it’s work fine for me…

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42. Verbyop October 8th, 2011 at 12:31 am 42

    Thanks for this tip. Super helpful!

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44. Abbey October 21st, 2011 at 4:38 am 44

    Any tips on how to find out which version of xcode is right for my computer?

45. Girish November 3rd, 2011 at 1:14 pm 45

    Hello,
    I Install xcode 4.2 on my pc. After few days I uninstall it using the same command given by you. And now I am trying to install xcode 3.2.6. It installs successfully but when I am trying to open it,then it does not open.
    Again I install xcode 4.2 then it works properly but again I uninstall it & install xcode 3.2.6 then it does not open.
    Please help me.

46. Gajendra Chauhan November 21st, 2011 at 12:03 pm 46

    Hello, I have xcode 3 installed.If I overwrite xcode4,what will happen? pls write a step to uninstall old one.thanks.

47. Greyson November 23rd, 2011 at 11:14 am 47

    works like a charm!

48. evan dickens November 29th, 2011 at 7:46 pm 48

    well done, worked great !!!

49. Katrina Zandieh November 30th, 2011 at 11:27 pm 49

    OMG thank you for your post ive been tring to remove xcode for ever and keeps giving me errors. Great info : )

50. Craig Bellamy December 3rd, 2011 at 5:53 am 50

    just use spotlight to find where the ‘uninstall-devtools’ script is located and then run it from the terminal.

    e.g:

    1) cd ~
    2) sudo /Developer/Library/uninstall-devtools

    There’s also no need to add the -mode parameter. Seems a lot of bloggers that post this solution have latched onto this for some bizarre reason.

51. Cooper December 11th, 2011 at 10:53 pm 51

    wow it actually worked!!

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53. Oliver December 19th, 2011 at 10:01 pm 53

    Thanks very much, worked perfectly, as everybody has said before.

54. Sarah Northway December 31st, 2011 at 1:23 am 54

    I ran this, then deleted what was left over of the Developer directory, then rebooted. However when I try to install XCode again via the Mac Store, it tells me I still have XCode installed and need to update it via system update. System update does not find any updates for XCode.

    So Lion appears to still think XCode is installed somehow.

55. Sarah Northway December 31st, 2011 at 1:37 am 55

    Finally got it. I also needed to delete /Developer and /Users/USERNAME/Developer before the Mac Store would recognize XCode as deleted and let me reinstall it.

56. Jaydeep January 2nd, 2012 at 9:34 am 56

    Hello
    I amn not able to find the path where my folders are located…
    so please tel me how to find that…

57. Tim January 4th, 2012 at 5:35 am 57

    Thanks a lot! It works perfectly.

58. daniel January 24th, 2012 at 11:03 pm 58

    What sort of a moron would not put the default path for the uninstaller. Take off your shades you look ugly on them..

59. inaki February 6th, 2012 at 11:09 pm 59

    oh brilliant, and now my Java sdks are also gone. As he says, MAKE SURE YOU KNOW WHAT YOU’RE DOING!!

60. Dennis Granau February 10th, 2012 at 1:07 am 60

    Thank you very much!

61. Caue Rego February 15th, 2012 at 1:44 am 61

    Another “thank you”! This fixed my weeeeird freaking Xcode issue as well, even almost a year after your post!

62. Caue Rego February 15th, 2012 at 2:13 am 62

    Forget what I said before. This did fix one freaking issue (somehow setting up the BaseSDK to “iphoneos”, which is even recommended by “Validate Settings” would break up the build), but not the main one (when trying to build I still get this error, though none of the listed solutions work as well: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5329001/apple-mach-o-linker-error-when-compiling-for-device ).

63. Caue Rego February 15th, 2012 at 6:20 pm 63

    Ok, you can disregard my 2 previous comments. Maybe I didn’t even need a reinstall after all. I’ll never know now. But Thanks! This worked perfectly for removing XCode and I reinstalled it, all in less than half an hour. Perfect!

64. NAsir February 21st, 2012 at 2:49 pm 64

    Thanks alot for ur smart idea.

65. Mustafa Ahmedani February 21st, 2012 at 9:47 pm 65

    Thank you so much! It’s deleting since I had the SIGABRT error (couldn’t let me run my apps on the iDevice) so I wanted to reinstall and start fresh! Thanks to you guys my problems are solved!

66. Tex March 12th, 2012 at 2:32 pm 66

    Thanks man! you helped me a lot!

67. how to uninstall on mac April 5th, 2012 at 4:59 am 67

    I think appcleaner or mackeeper or any other professional uninstaller should do the work without problem.

68. Waqar Salim April 26th, 2012 at 3:50 am 68

    Thanks a lot man . . . .Its great help

    worked perfectly

69. Benjamin May 10th, 2012 at 3:38 pm 69

    I installed XCode 4.3.2 a few days ago and it keeps crashing. The command mentioned above is not working as I Terminal cant find the command. I can’t find the uninstall-devtools script either with sportlight. Do you have any other ideas??

70. Alli May 13th, 2012 at 3:49 pm 70

    I have tried so many things!! i get to the password and then it says ‘command not found’ so i try it again and then it says that the sudo thing i put in is ‘command not found’ I have changed my password and tried again but still doesn’t work! Help me please.