Anyone else having trouble downloading Xcode?
Hi all,
I'm having trouble downloading Xcode 5.0.2 today.
Background - I'm very new to the Apple/Mac ecosystem but I'm also a software engineer so not clueless about technology generally. Yesterday I bought a 13" Macbook Pro Retina and applied all the updates that the App store suggested. Today I decided I wanted to install Fink so I could access a lot of Unix/Linux-y tools I'm familiar with, the first step is to install Xcode.
I tried running xcode-select --install to install the command line tools but that fails shortly after the license agreement with the message "Can't install the software because it is not currently available from the Software Update server."
So instead I decided to try installing the full Xcode. After going through the app store, the download starts through Launchpad and quite quickly gets to 156.8MB, then stalls. After a while it might go up to 157, but then it goes back down to 155, 156.2.... not making any sense. After about two hours I get a message saying download failed. I've tried this twice. I've also tried pausing and restarting the download, deleting the application while it's in progress then rebooting, installing something else (Evernote, which worked fine), but always the same result.
Am I doing something wrong? Has anyone else tried this today? Is there some buffer/temp file I could try flushing before giving it another go? Help?
Thanks in advance,
David Hicks.
MacBook Pro with Retina display, OS X Mavericks (10.9), Xcode