And no, there is no way to run Xcode on Linux. Once installed you can install Xcode via command-line developer tool following this link. … OSX is based on BSD, not Linux. You cannot run Xcode on a Linux machine.

Can I install Xcode on Ubuntu?

1 Answer. If you want to install Xcode in Ubuntu, that is impossible, as already pointed out by Deepak: Xcode is not available on Linux at this time and I don’t expected it to be in the foreseeable future. That’s it as far as installation. Now you can do a few things with it, these are just examples.

Can you develop for iOS on Linux?

However, Apple’s native frameworks used for developing iOS apps cannot compile on other platforms like Linux or Windows. The native iOS components require a macOS or Darwin for developing and distributing iOS apps.