# MacOS pack install without Xcode

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**Created:** [September 8, 2025, 4:39pm UTC](https://swi-prolog.discourse.group/t/macos-pack-install-without-xcode/9255 "2025-09-08T16:39:39Z")\
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**Author:** ![Boris](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/swi-prolog.discourse.group/boris/32/7486_2.png) [@Boris](https://swi-prolog.discourse.group/u/Boris)\
**Post date:** [September 9, 2025, 3:38pm UTC](https://swi-prolog.discourse.group/t/macos-pack-install-without-xcode/9255/7 "2025-09-09T15:38:19Z")

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> [@jan](#):
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> But, MacOS seems to have a dummy `git` executable that triggers activating Xcode ☹ There is a finite amount of weird environments we can handle

This has been fixed for newer Mac OS version but some years ago I still regularly experienced a problem with git every time the OS got an update. There is [this rant](https://swi-prolog.discourse.group/t/xpce-on-mac/3642/11) from some years back, the message is that I periodically had to run

```prolog
$ xcode-select --install

```

to fix `git` among other things. I had installed git with `homebrew`.

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