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		iancarroll on Oct 2, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Hacker's Guide to Setting Up Your Mac You can download the command line tools directly, you may need to be a registered Apple dev first though

reubenmorais on Oct 2, 2014 | [–]

You don't, just run

     xcode-select --install

And it'll prompt you to install the command line tools.

untog on Oct 2, 2014 | | [–]

and, in my experience, fail every time you try to do it.

RexRollman on Oct 2, 2014 | | | [–]

I just did this yesterday. Easy peasy.

sigjuice on Oct 3, 2014 | [–]

Simply typing gcc on a pristine Mavericks system will also prompt you to download the command line tools.

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