It seems that the problem was that the new version of the tools are installed to a different directory, and xcode-select -r is not clever enough to find the latest version. Now, sudo xcode-select -p returns /Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/. But xcode-select -install said the command line tools were already installed. sudo rm -rf /Applications/Xcode.appĭeleted version 8 of the tools. Xcode-select -p returned /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer, and clang -version reported an installation directory under there. xcode-select -r and rebooting didn't solve this issue. But clang -version still gave 8.0.0 as the version number. The App Store didn't suggest this upgrade, and neither did softwareupdate -list.

I wanted to upgrade the command line tools from version 8 to 9. Hopefully it'll help someone (and it'll surely help me next time I run into the same issue). I'm going to answer a slightly different question here, because this question came up when I searched for a solution to my problem.

Then, run the install command (as shown by Brendan Shanks) with what you copied inside quotes: softwareupdate -i 'Command Line Tools (macOS High Sierra version 10.13) for Xcode-10.1' In the above case, you would copy: Command Line Tools (macOS High Sierra version 10.13) for Xcode-10.1 Copy that entire line (except the asterisk.). * Command Line Tools (macOS High Sierra version 10.13) for Xcode-10.1Ĭommand Line Tools (macOS High Sierra version 10.13) for Xcode (10.1), 190584K įind the bullet that refers to the Xcode command line tools. Software Update found the following new or updated software: When it's done, you'll see a bulleted (with an asterisk) output like this: $ softwareupdate -list This will probably take a couple of minutes. For future travelers, here's a version-agnostic approach.

Update xcode to latest version