CODEWITHSUNDEEP
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ms960
ms960

Reputation: 11

Issue with uninstalling Xcode 3.2 on Mountain Lion

I just upgraded to Mountain Lion (from Snow Leopard) so as to take advantage of Xcode 4.

Before installing Xcode 4, I would like to remove Xcode 3 (not required, but want to clean up before moving on).

The standard method of removing Xcode 3 is:

$ sudo <Xcode>/Library/uninstall-devtools --mode=all

However, when I issue this command, even from within the /Library folder, the only thing that happens is I get a "command not found" after entering my password.

I can see uninstall-devtools in Finder, so I know it's there. I just can't execute it for some reason. I've tried every possible way of running the uninstall tools.

Assistance is greatly appreciated. Thanks.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 905

Answers (2)

oldfartdeveloper
oldfartdeveloper

Reputation: 354

Similarly to information I found in another SO article, my laptop's old XCode 3.2 didn't even have the uninstall-tools utility.

So it worked fine for me to simply delete the XCode.app folder.

Upvotes: 0

zneak
zneak

Reputation: 138101

If the file really is there, type sudo in the terminal window (with a trailing space), drag and drop the uninstall-devtools file on the window, then append --mode=all. That should clear any chance you have to make a typo or any other mistake.

Upvotes: 1

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