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I'm having weird issues with Xcode. I am trying to install the new Xcode 6 from the Mac App Store, but it got stuck at "4 minutes remaining".
Earlier I had Xcode6 GM which was working perfectly fine. I thought of downloading the new version from the App Store so I deleted the GM.
Did anybody else have the same issue?
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This isn’t like a normal app installation getting stuck but the fix is fairly easy. Here’s how you can fix Xcode stuck on ‘Installing’ on macOS. Xcode is a large app and when you install it from the Mac App Store, it tends to download a little slowly.
Basic checks Xcode is a large app and when you install it from the Mac App Store, it tends to download a little slowly. Often users are tempted to install it via a torrent but that’s not a good idea as it might have been tampered with. To that end, do not use any other source other than the Mac App Store to download Xcode.
So patience helps, and watching the logs as well. Although it does not speed up, but in Mac App Store, you should see the spinning wheel next in Xcode - place the cursor ON the wheel and you should see the installation progress (eg 52%). If it does not move, cancel the Xcode installation and start again.
Keep your Mac on and be patient. Boot into Safe Mode (on Apple Silicon; shutdown, keep power button pressed until it tells you its loading safe mode) before doing the xcode update. It resolves the variety of issues being reported.
I had the same problem.
Forgive the cliche, but I had to "turn it off, then on again" (reboot the MacBook) and only then could I re-click on the "Install" button, and it'd start downloading XCode, from scratch.
Previously, using the App Store "Check for unfinished downloads" just told me that I didn't have any downloads pending, yet in the App Store app, it had XCode stuck in the "Installing" state.
Update
It's that time again. iOS 8.4 has been released, but you can only get XCode to connect to an iOS 8.4 device if you've upgraded to XCode 6.4... but you can only do that if you've upgraded OS X to the latest version. Thanks, Apple.
And as usual, download times are appalling, even if (like me), you've waited a few weeks until after the release, to avoid the rush.
And when you finally do get to click on the Update button in App Store to update XCode, it changes to "Installing" but actually, it's busy spending the next few hours downloading, rather than installing anything.
You have to keep an eye on the download bar, just below the Launchpad icon on the taskbar, to check how far the painfully-slow download has got...
I'm really not impressed.
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I quit App Store, then searched for XCode in my Applications folder, clicked it, after a few seconds the download status vanished and I was able to click it again and open the app.
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