When I run xcode-select --install in the Terminal, I get the prompt to install the Developer Tools as desired (and as described in this post). But when I run the installation, the process stops at around 50% with a message along the lines of:
Could not install the software because the update server cannot be reached.
My internet connection works fine and I do not think that Apple's servers can be down for more than a couple of hours so I looked at the Console. This is what I found there:
23.02.14 23:25:38,513 mds[63]: (Normal) Volume: volume:0x7fdb79016000 ********** Bootstrapped Creating a default store:0 SpotLoc:(null) SpotVerLoc:(null) occlude:0 /Volumes/Recovery HD
23.02.14 23:25:38,538 fseventsd[73]: Logging disabled completely for device:1: /Volumes/Recovery HD
23.02.14 23:25:38,000 kernel[0]: hfs: unmount initiated on Recovery HD on device disk0s3
Next I tried to install the Developer Tools from http://developer.apple.com/downloads/ and the installer said the installation was successful. Except that the Developer Tools still don't work.
xcode-select -p
returns
/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer
What is the issue here?
UPDATE
It looks like the .dmg install from http://developer.apple.com/downloads/ was actually successful. The reason I wanted to install the Deveolper Tools in the first place was because I wanted to install the Python Imaging Library with PIP but failed and read somewhere that this was due to the lack of the Command Line Developer Tools. I found a solution to this problem here. The question of my thread is not really resolved though (why the misleading message when I try to install the Developer Tools?) which is why I do not mark the question as answered for now.
