[10.14.5] softwareupdate -l not showing Command Line Tools

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On a clean install of 10.14.5: Multiple reports of the beta version not working using a headless install: https://github.com/Homebrew/install/issues/206

This lead me to trying to manually do a headless install. I tried all of the various methods in How can I install the Command Line Tools completely from the command line? and none of them show anything but:

Mac-mini:~ anka$ /usr/sbin/softwareupdate -l | grep "\*"
 * MacBook Pro Supplemental Update-

Yet, I can xcode-select --install and it allows me to install it.

Anyone know how to get it to show up in softwareupdate -l so we can headless install it?

Posted on Jun 6, 2019 4:39 AM

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Oops, your second stackexchange URL unlike the first one had been 'prettified' and hence I did not spot this.

Your right this method does not work. (Anymore.) Sadly Apple seem to be removing 'features' as rapidly as they add them.

Two options that come to mind.

Write a script which uses AppleScript to automate pressing the OK button, however whilst this might then be fully automated it will still require a GUI session to be running
Download the installer package for the command line tools from developer.apple.com, this is a disk image containing an installer pkg, this could then be deployed to Macs automatically even if headless e.g. via Munki or Jamf

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