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Fixing the path to Xcode after installing the latest version on macOS Monterey
- Authors
- Name
- interglobalmedia
- @letsbsocial1
Today, after seeing a tweet on Twitter regarding what the latest version of Git had to offer (which I subsequently found I could not install with the latest version of Xcode
), I decided it was about time to update Git
. And that meant updating Xcode
first.
I ran over to the Apple Developer site, and grabbed the first version of Xcode
that I saw, which was Xcode 14.0 beta
. Of course it took forever to download. Then it took forever to expand from the .xip
folder. And then I deleted my previous version from Applications
, and dragged over the new version into Applications
. But when I checked to see whether the install was successful, it threw an error
. An error
which I knew meant that the version was incompatible with Monterey
. It was meant for Ventura
. And I already knew that my computer
was too old and therefore not compatible with it. To learn more about macOS ventura
and which Mac computers
are compatible with it, please visit the article entitled How to install the macOS Ventura public beta on The Verge
. The publish date is July 11, 2022
. Man, was I bummed. And I knew what that meant. The time was approaching to get a new computer (laptop)!
But back to the subject
at hand. After finding out which version
of Xcode
was compatible
with macOS Monterey, I went back into the Apple Developer site and downloaded Xcode version 13.4.1. After removing version 14.0
from Applications
, moving it to the trash
, and then moving expanded version 13.4.1
into Applications
, when I checked to see whether the install
was successful, an error
was thrown.
I ran xcodebuild -version
to make sure that Xcode
was installed correctly. Instead of the version of Xcode
that I installed being printed
to the Terminal console
, I got an error
that I either had to change the path
of my Xcode
install, or I had to install CLT
(Command Line Tools
) by running the xcode-select --install
command. I ran the xcode-select --install
command, even though I had already done so and therefore no longer had any CLT
related updates to download. And when I did so, I was prompted with the message that it was already installed.
I searched for the answer as to how I could correct the path
to Xcode
in Applications
. I pretty quickly came up with the article entitled Xcode-select active developer directory error on iTecNote.com
, published on July 11, 2022
(very recent). I followed the suggestion to run the command sudo xcode-select -s /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer
, and it worked like a charm!
Next, I checked to make sure that CLT
recognized Git
, so I ran git --version
in Terminal
. I did not receive the version number
I was hoping for (2.37.1
), which I thought would have come with Xcode 14.0
. Git version 2.32.1
was returned instead. The version
I had previously was 2.30.1
, so not that great an upgrade
, but still better than 2.30.1
. I guess I will have to wait a while before I am able to just "git push" to push new branches. No more "--set-upstream origin"
. OR I could re-install it with Homebrew
, which I found out has the absolute latest version
of Git
: 2.37.1
! That might be the next post I write about
.
Happy Xcoding
!
Related Resources
Xcode-select active developer directory error - iTecNote.com
download Xcode version 13.4.1 - developer.apple.com