Unable to install Xcode on Catalina

I was able to work around this by uninstalling Xcode first. What I did:

1. move Xcode from Applications to Trash
2. in the terminal, `rm -rf ~/Library/Developer`
3. in the terminal, `rm -rf ~/Library/Caches/com.apple.dt.Xcode`
4. restart
5. install Xcode from the App Store

After moving Xcode to the trash, /Applications/Xcode.app remained and made the downloader unhappy.

sudo rm -rf /Applications/Xcode.app ~/Library/Developer ~/Library/Caches/com.apple.dt.Xcode

*then* install. Restart not needed. Someone at Apple needs a wrist slap.

You may not actually have to remove the other directories by hand; simply dragging Xcode 11.0 to the trash then installing Xcode 11.1 from the App Store solved the issue for me.

Youdonotneedauniqueusername wrote:

After moving Xcode to the trash, /Applications/Xcode.app remained and made the downloader unhappy.

Given that's what you are dragging to the Trash, I'm not sure how it would be possible for that to be left behind.

This solution worked perfectly for me, though I didn't need to restart :)

Yeah, I didn't need to restart either! Thanks for the answers, very helpful!