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Comment by bingemaker | Hacker News Reader

XCode is refusing to install. Fails with some error, and asks me to download XCode again. Also now the system needs 70-80 GB of free space to install XCode. One of the funny upgrades so far

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There is definitely something buggy going on there. It took 2 attempts for it to install for me! No errors, it just stopped installing somewhere around 90%. Plenty of free disks space and RAM.

Are you using a XIP to install?

No, I was using the App Store "update"...

Are you sure it actually stopped installing? When I installed XCode for the first time a few months ago, there was a 20-30 minute period where it was completely silent. Ultimately I was able to tail some syslog from the app store daemon that indicated it was actually doing something (downloading dependencies and validating their signatures, IIRC). But I almost restarted the computer thinking it wasn't working.

It definitely stopped installing! It was showing the "old" version in the App Store updates, and I was able to start the install again.

  $ du -hs /Applications/Xcode.app/
  4.5G /Applications/Xcode.app/

You definitely should not need that much space.

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