Removing the SDK

[Snakey]

Hello fellow babies. This is my first post here because i've been hiding in the corner for quite some time like a lonely stalker. You're a great bunch and you've been really helpful for other people so hopefully you can help with my problem.

Quite some time ago (maybe 6 months) I downloaded the SDK to develop iPhone apps. It was after a night out and I had too many drinks, so I can't remember exactly what I downloaded. I got it into my head that I was going to become a rich developer, woke up with a hangover and the moment had past.

6 months later (I'm sober, trust me) and I really want to give it another shot. I've been reading books and looking into tutorials, but I want to start playing around with the code myself. The problem is this; what I downloaded many months ago is now outdated and I want to uninstall it and install the new SDK.

Macs have a reputation for not being the easiest machines to remove software, so I wanted to ask how I should go about it.

What's the best way to get rid of your old stuff and replace it with the new SDK without causing any problems. I'm not even sure what I downloaded so I'm not 100% sure what I should be looking for apart from a couple of things. I've even considered wiping my Mac clean just to get this over with, but that would be a pain.

Sorry for the long winded post. I would greatly appreciate any help and I look forward to spending more time here.

[dapis]

Originally Posted by Snakey

Hello fellow babies. This is my first post here because i've been hiding in the corner for quite some time like a lonely stalker. You're a great bunch and you've been really helpful for other people so hopefully you can help with my problem.

Quite some time ago (maybe 6 months) I downloaded the SDK to develop iPhone apps. It was after a night out and I had too many drinks, so I can't remember exactly what I downloaded. I got it into my head that I was going to become a rich developer, woke up with a hangover and the moment had past.

6 months later (I'm sober, trust me) and I really want to give it another shot. I've been reading books and looking into tutorials, but I want to start playing around with the code myself. The problem is this; what I downloaded many months ago is now outdated and I want to uninstall it and install the new SDK.

Macs have a reputation for not being the easiest machines to remove software, so I wanted to ask how I should go about it.

What's the best way to get rid of your old stuff and replace it with the new SDK without causing any problems. I'm not even sure what I downloaded so I'm not 100% sure what I should be looking for apart from a couple of things. I've even considered wiping my Mac clean just to get this over with, but that would be a pain.

Sorry for the long winded post. I would greatly appreciate any help and I look forward to spending more time here.

You don't need to do any uninstalling. Just download the latest XCode and it will replace the current version. And where did you ever get the idea that uninstalling anything on the Mac was difficult? That's simply silly; I've never experienced any such thing.

[Meredi86]

Macs have a reputation for not being the easiest machines to remove software, so I wanted to ask how I should go about it.

Sorry mate but this is just plain wrong. If you want to uninstall say Yahoo messenger all you have to do is delete the icon in the Applications folder. there are very few apps on the mac that require a specific uninstall routine, and even those are clearly laid out and easy to follow. Unlike on the other side of the fence where you have to find some "Add/Remove hardware/software" option is some hidden away menu in the control panel, then search through everything that you installed and everything that decided to install itself till you find what you want, then uninstall it and realise that doing that left behind a few files and now you have to go clean these up.

So on the Mac i have only come across Adobe and Xcode that require a specific method to uninstall - can't remember Adobe - been about 3/4 years since i last used it and last time i came to get rid of it i was doing a fresh install of Lion so it didn't really matter how to uninstall it.

As for Xcode there are a few things to ask first:
1) what Xcode do you have installed? 3.x or 4.x
2)what SDK's do you have for that version already?

This is all for Xcode 4, but 3 is similar, just search about a bit :

So id like to ask how you don't know what you have installed? If it is because you can't find the developer files then all you need to do is drop into your Computer folder (shift-cmd-c) and there you will find your hard drive - in my case "Mac OSX". Double click on that and there will be a folder called "Developer"

This Developer folder contains everything you will need to be looking at for this post and the solution.

Inside the Developer folder is a "Platforms" folder, then iPhoneOS.platform, then into Developer in there and there is an SDK folder that will show you which iOS SDK you have at the moment.

Now you can, as previously suggested just download the newer version and it will add/overwrite the previous and there shouldn't be a problem.

If however you would prefer to uninstall Xcode then here is the method (again for 4 though 3 is similar i can't remember the location of the files). Back in hat top level Developer folder there is a Library folder. That contains two files:
uninstall-developer-folder
uninstall-devtools
(those are copy pastes so you can spotlight them if needed)

Open up Terminal and type in "sudo" (without quotations) and then drop on the file and hit enter - then just follow the prompts from terminal and before you know it your mac will be clean of all Xcode data.

Hope this helps

p.s. i really would like to know where this "reputation for difficult uninstalling" has come from.

p.p.s. not sure i like being addressed as a baby... maybe just me there thought lol