Upgraded to High Sierra, reinstalled brew, now can't upgrade/install any packages - Your Command Line Tools are too outdated.

[speedyseal]

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Cannot brew install or upgrade any packages.

e.g.

$ brew install mongodb
Error: Your Command Line Tools are too outdated.
Update them from Software Update in the App Store.

$ brew doctor
Please note that these warnings are just used to help the Homebrew maintainers
with debugging if you file an issue. If everything you use Homebrew for is
working fine: please don't worry or file an issue; just ignore this. Thanks!

Warning: Your Command Line Tools are too outdated.
Update them from Software Update in the App Store.


Warning: A newer Command Line Tools release is available.
Update them from Software Update in the App Store.

I had upgraded to High Sierra. Then reinstalled brew using /usr/bin/ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"

==> This script will install:
/usr/local/bin/brew
/usr/local/share/doc/homebrew
/usr/local/share/man/man1/brew.1
/usr/local/share/zsh/site-functions/_brew
/usr/local/etc/bash_completion.d/brew
/usr/local/Homebrew
==> The following new directories will be created:
/usr/local/Frameworks
/usr/local/sbin
==> The Xcode Command Line Tools will be installed.

Press RETURN to continue or any other key to abort
==> /usr/bin/sudo /bin/mkdir -p /usr/local/Frameworks /usr/local/sbin
==> /usr/bin/sudo /bin/chmod g+rwx /usr/local/Frameworks /usr/local/sbin
==> /usr/bin/sudo /bin/chmod 755 /usr/local/share/zsh /usr/local/share/zsh/site-functions
==> /usr/bin/sudo /usr/sbin/chown dyeh /usr/local/Frameworks /usr/local/sbin
==> /usr/bin/sudo /usr/bin/chgrp admin /usr/local/Frameworks /usr/local/sbin
==> /usr/bin/sudo /bin/mkdir -p /Library/Caches/Homebrew
==> /usr/bin/sudo /bin/chmod g+rwx /Library/Caches/Homebrew
==> /usr/bin/sudo /usr/sbin/chown dyeh /Library/Caches/Homebrew
==> Searching online for the Command Line Tools
==> /usr/bin/sudo /usr/bin/touch /tmp/.com.apple.dt.CommandLineTools.installondemand.in-progress
==> Installing Command Line Tools (macOS El Capitan version 10.11) for Xcode-8.2
==> /usr/bin/sudo /usr/sbin/softwareupdate -i Command\ Line\ Tools\ (macOS\ El\ Capitan\ version\ 10.11)\ for\ Xcode-8.2
Software Update Tool


Downloading Command Line Tools (macOS El Capitan version 10.11) for Xcode
Downloaded Command Line Tools (macOS El Capitan version 10.11) for Xcode
Installing Command Line Tools (macOS El Capitan version 10.11) for Xcode
Done with Command Line Tools (macOS El Capitan version 10.11) for Xcode
Done.
==> /usr/bin/sudo /bin/rm -f /tmp/.com.apple.dt.CommandLineTools.installondemand.in-progress
==> /usr/bin/sudo /usr/bin/xcode-select --switch /Library/Developer/CommandLineTools
==> Downloading and installing Homebrew...
HEAD is now at 1d9746d Merge pull request #4092 from MikeMcQuaid/x11_requirement_download_base
==> Cleaning up /Library/Caches/Homebrew...
==> Migrating /Library/Caches/Homebrew to /Users/dyeh/Library/Caches/Homebrew...
==> Deleting /Library/Caches/Homebrew...
Already up-to-date.
==> Installation successful!

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The installer installed an old version of CLT. Subsequently brew fails to install any package, with the message "Error: Your Command Line Tools are too outdated."

App store doesn't show any newer CLT to install. I updated Xcode to 9.3. I cannot find any place in Xcode to download its corresponding CLT.

The brew installation script shouldn't be installing an old version of CLT that it later complains is too old and exits.

[MikeMcQuaid]

Run xcode-select --install. If that doesn't fix it: download them from http://developers.apple.com/downloads/

[speedyseal]

xcode-select didn’t help

To help people in the future who encounter this.
If you upgrade to high sierra you will encounter permissions errors in /usr/local

Reinstall brew using the usual command for installing from scratch /usr/bin/ruby...

The installer will blow away your old CLT with an old one so you will have to update Xcode and search the Apple developer downloads for the corresponding CLT. It may not be obvious where to find it. The above link has it.

[ghost]

@speedyseal
same with me...

i am on xcode 9.2 and brew doctor tells me ..

x-MacBook-Pro:~ apple$ brew doctor
Please note that these warnings are just used to help the Homebrew maintainers
with debugging if you file an issue. If everything you use Homebrew for is
working fine: please don't worry or file an issue; just ignore this. Thanks!

Warning: Your Xcode (9.2) is outdated.
Please update to Xcode 9.3 (or delete it).
Xcode can be updated from the App Store.

So, xcode-select does nothing.
SO then softwareupdate --list gives me nothing too.

Should i just ignore it i wonder and wait for homebrew to get updated ?

[nitriques]

I've been having the same issue for months now.

I've brew update and even pulled in master via git, no issues, but brew upgrade says Your Command Line Tools are too outdated.

There are nothing in brew doctor (except the same warning).

There is nothing in softwareupdates.

I do have xcode-select version 2349, installed from https://developer.apple.com/download/more/ (CLT tools for Xcode 9.3).

I've tried xcode-select -r and I stay on the same version.

[ghost]

x-MacBook-Pro:MacOS apple$ brew doctor
Please note that these warnings are just used to help the Homebrew maintainers
with debugging if you file an issue. If everything you use Homebrew for is
working fine: please don't worry or file an issue; just ignore this. Thanks!

Warning: Your Xcode (9.2) is outdated.
Please update to Xcode 9.3 (or delete it).
Xcode can be updated from the App Store.

x-MacBook-Pro:MacOS apple$ 

So its telling me to ignore so i will :)

[nitriques]

I had to delete a plist from /System/Library/Receipts/com.apple.pkg.CLTools_Executables.* (needed to disable sip for that) and then brew upgrade worked for almost everything, except python, where it complains (again) about not have the command line tools... urg....

I've tried to poke at the code, but it gets stash when I run brew upgrade and was not able to turn it off !!!

[nitriques]

The problem seems to be that line:

brew/Library/Homebrew/formula_installer.rb

Line 256 in 97645d0

raise BuildToolsError, [formula]

[nitriques]

I do have both /usr/bin/clang and /usr/bin/gcc

[rpranshu]

Are you still facing this issue? @nitriques
If yes then post the CLI request and response, maybe i can help
regards

[nitriques]

@rpranshu Yes I do, thanks for asking !

$ brew update
# OK !

$ brew upgrade git
# OK !

$ brew upgrade python
==> Upgrading 1 outdated package, with result:
python 3.6.4_2 -> 3.6.5
==> Upgrading python 
Error: The following formula:
  python
cannot be installed as a binary package and must be built from source.
Install the Command Line Tools:
  xcode-select --install

$ xcode-select --install
xcode-select: error: command line tools are already installed, use "Software Update" to install updates

$ xcode-select -v
xcode-select version 2349.

$ xcode-select -p
/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools

$ brew doctor
Please note that these warnings are just used to help the Homebrew maintainers
with debugging if you file an issue. If everything you use Homebrew for is
working fine: please don't worry or file an issue; just ignore this. Thanks!

Warning: No developer tools installed.
Install the Command Line Tools:
  xcode-select --install

I do not have xcode anymore. Do you want anything else ?

[rpranshu]

@nitriques

After reading the query, i have 2 conclusions:

1. There might be a PATH issue, i.e. Homebrew might not be able to find the right path to the dev tools of xcode,

2. Secondly, run brew reinstall python . This will solve the python issue

PS
If (1.) doesn't work then do the following:
sudo rm -rf /Library/Developer/CommandLineTools. This will uninstall cli tools by xcode. then again try xcode-select --install (optionally add sudo before the command)

WARNING!! Please do make a backup of the CommandLineTools folder!

[MikeMcQuaid]

Please file a reproducible bug if there is one otherwise take this conversation to our Discourse or somewhere else, thanks.