How to remove the OSX-GCC-Installer?

Question

Just a couple of days ago I discovered and used Kenneth Reitz's OSX-GCC-Installer to solve the issue of installing Ruby 1.9.3 via RVM on my Mac.

Today I read on Kenneth's blog about the Command Line Tools for Xcode package that Apple added to their official developer tools suite just yesterday for Lion users.

I try to keep the number of installed packages to a minimum, so given this alternative, what's the safe way to remove what was added by the OSX-GCC-Installer?

Solution 1

According to the creator of the package, you can install Xcode on top of it since it is just a subset. Then you can use the uninstall command to completely remove:

sudo /Developer/Library/uninstall-devtools --mode=all

Definitely not a quick uninstall, but it should work.

Solution 2

Just an update for anyone coming across this now.

If you download Xcode 4.3 or later (in order to install over OSX-GCC to facilitate removal) it is bundled as a single app, so to uninstall, delete the Xcode app rather than using the command mentioned in the accepted answer.

Solution 3

From https://teamtreehouse.com/forum/uninstalling-osxgccinstaller:

sudo /Library/Developer/4.1/uninstall-devtools -mode=all

Comments

[nikhil]

So this will uninstall both xcode and the command line tools? After this we need to install xcode again along with the command line tools?

[Can Kavaklıoğlu]

it was sudo /Library/Developer/4.1/uninstall-devtools --mode=all on my system 10.8.4

[Kara Brightwell]

Since XCode 4.3 there is no longer a /Developer folder.