pod install -bash: pod: command not found

Question

I installed pod some time ago. However, it's stopped working so I'm working through this again.

However, I almost immediately run into a problem here:

pod install
-bash: pod: command not found

Any suggestions why this happened?

Snowcrash · Accepted Answer · 2021-01-11T10:05:16.740

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OK, found the problem. I upgraded Ruby some time ago and blasted away a whole load of gems. Solution:

sudo gem install cocoapods

For none-sudo use:

export GEM_HOME=$HOME/.gem
export PATH=$GEM_HOME/bin:$PATH
gem install cocoapods --user-install

edited Jan 11 '21 at 10:05

answered Jan 07 '13 at 21:09

Snowcrash

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if "$ sudo gem install cocoapods" does not work for you with error installing cocoapods: activesupport requires Ruby version >= 2.2.2 then see this answer http://stackoverflow.com/questions/32871329/error-installing-google-analytics-on-ios-app/38373354#38373354 – Martin Belcher - AtWrk Jul 15 '16 at 08:33
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Why sudo is needed here ? isn't it bad practice to install with sudo ? – vikramvi Sep 01 '17 at 09:25
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Yes, you don't have to use *sudo*, see below https://stackoverflow.com/a/47333482/1158376 – Per Quested Aronsson Nov 16 '17 at 15:31

Babul Prabhakar · Answer 2 · 2016-05-18T08:20:37.550

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Installing CocoaPods on OS X 10.11

These instructions were tested on all betas and the final release of El Capitan.

Custom GEM_HOME

This is the solution when you are receiving above error

$ mkdir -p $HOME/Software/ruby
$ export GEM_HOME=$HOME/Software/ruby
$ gem install cocoapods
[...]
1 gem installed
$ export PATH=$PATH:$HOME/Software/ruby/bin
$ pod --version
0.38.2

edited May 18 '16 at 08:20

answered Oct 07 '15 at 10:06

Babul Prabhakar

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Did not work for me. When I try "gem install cocopods" I get the error "activesupport requires Ruby version >= 2.2.2." – Zvi Sep 09 '16 at 22:20

score 84 · Answer 3 · edited Feb 27 '21 at 04:10

This Step Is Proper Working.

Pod Install

[ 1 ] Open terminal and type:

sudo gem install cocoapods

Gem will get installed in Ruby inside the System library. Or try on 10.11 Mac OSX El Capitan, type:

sudo gem install -n /usr/local/bin cocoapods

If there is an error "activesupport requires Ruby version >= 2.xx", then install the latest active support first by typing in the terminal.

sudo gem install activesupport -v 4.2.6

[ 2 ] After installation, there will be a lot of messages, read them and if no error found, it means cocoa pod installation is done. Next, you need to set up the cocoa pod master repo. Type in terminal:

pod setup

And wait it will download the master repo. The size is very big (370.0MB in Dec 2016). So it can be a while. You can track the download by opening Activity and go to the Network tab and search for git-remote-https. Alternatively, you can try adding verbose to the command like so:

pod setup --verbose

[ 3 ] Once done it will output "Setup Complete", and you can create your XCode project and save it.

[ 4 ] Then in a terminal cd to "your XCode project root directory" (where your .xcodeproj file resides) and type:

pod init

[ 5 ] Then open your project's podfile by typing in terminal:

open -a Xcode Podfile

[ 6 ] Your Podfile will get open in text mode. Initially, there will be some default commands in there. Here is where you add your project's dependencies. For example, in the podfile, type

/****** These are Third party pods names ******/
pod 'OpenSSL-Universal'
pod 'IQKeyboardManager'
pod 'FTPopOverMenu'
pod 'TYMActivityIndicatorView'
pod 'SCSkypeActivityIndicatorView'
pod 'Google/SignIn'
pod 'UPStackMenu'

(this is For example of adding library to your project).

When you are done editing the podfile, save it and close XCode.

[ 7 ] Then install pods into your project by typing in terminal:

pod install

Depending on how many libraries you added to your podfile for your project, the time to complete this varies. Once completed, there will be a message that says

"Pod installation complete! There are X dependencies from the Podfile and X total pods installed."

score 54 · Answer 4 · answered Aug 16 '13 at 04:29

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You have to restart Terminal after installing the gem. Or you can simply open a new tab Terminal to fix.

answered Aug 16 '13 at 04:29

Shaheen Ghiassy

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I did it but nothing had changed still it doesn't recognize my pod command I had installed cocoapods – Nickool Oct 13 '13 at 09:38
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Alternatively, you can call `. ~/.profile` which will setup your ruby env again. – yincrash Dec 17 '13 at 00:11

HappyFace · Answer 5 · 2022-02-03T09:42:37.503

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For macOS:

brew install --cask cocoapods

Original answer (outdated):

brew install cocoapods
brew cask install cocoapods-app

edited Feb 03 '22 at 09:42

answered Oct 25 '18 at 13:14

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`Error: Cask 'cocoapods-app' is unavailable: No Cask with this name exists.` – Aug 01 '19 at 11:57
@rust brew cask search cocoapod? I don’t know. – HappyFace Aug 01 '19 at 14:12
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`brew install --cask cocoapods` installs both the command line tool and the app. – Dirk Dec 15 '20 at 16:30
@Dirk Thanks, that's the best solution for MacOS – abhy Dec 17 '20 at 04:22

score 16 · Answer 6 · edited Jan 22 '14 at 13:23

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I had the same problem, running Mountain Lion with Ruby 2 installed and used instead of system ruby.

Previously I added PATH=/usr/local/bin:$PATH to my ~/.bash_profile as a way to make sure stuff installed by homebrew, including Ruby 2, took precedence over system-installed binaries.

Anyway, in this case I noticed that cocoapods would install their 'pod' binary not in /usr/local/bin but rather in /usr/local/Cellar/ruby/2.0.0-p247/bin/

So to my .bash_profile I added PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/Cellar/ruby/2.0.0-p247/bin/ and now cocoapods is working like a charm.

edited Jan 22 '14 at 13:23

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answered Sep 30 '13 at 20:27

gterzian

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I do not have this path file what should I do to follow? – Nickool Oct 13 '13 at 09:49
I'm pretty sure you should have a .bash_profile, you can't normally see it because of the . in front of the file name. do first a plain `cd` in your terminal to go back to your home dir followed b a `ls -a`, you should see all your files including a bash_profile – gterzian Oct 16 '13 at 20:59
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Thanks for tip. I soft linked the pod executable to /usr/local/bin, now everythings seem to be ok. – David Oct 16 '13 at 23:25
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It is not ideal to hardcode the ruby version into the PATH. See this answer for how to do this generically: http://stackoverflow.com/a/14138490/1531256 – codingFriend1 Jan 22 '14 at 13:20

score 15 · Answer 7 · answered Jul 08 '21 at 06:51

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for M1mac people first install cocoapods

brew install cocoapods

and if you are doing this for ios react-native

pod install

answered Jul 08 '21 at 06:51

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score 14 · Answer 8 · edited Oct 29 '16 at 08:16

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Uninstall all instances of cocopods by this command
```
$sudo gem uninstall cocoapods
```
sudo gem install -n /usr/local/bin cocoapods
sudo chmod +rx /usr/local/bin/

edited Oct 29 '16 at 08:16

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answered Oct 29 '16 at 07:36

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What does ``chmod +rx`` do? – William Grand Oct 31 '16 at 14:13
ERROR: While executing gem ... (Gem::FilePermissionError) You don't have write permissions for the /usr/local/bin directory. But your process worked :) – Naveed Abbas Mar 28 '17 at 11:52
Nice use of the `-n` option. – Mario Zigliotto Apr 03 '19 at 17:56

Allen · Answer 9 · 2015-03-28T05:04:36.940

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try: rbenv global system and then sudo gem install cocoapods pod setup

edited Mar 28 '15 at 05:04

answered Feb 27 '14 at 07:18

Allen

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This worked for me using `rbenv global system`. Typing simply `rbenv system` results in an error. – geraldWilliam Mar 27 '15 at 18:06
@MCSD Your should install [rbenv](https://github.com/rbenv/rbenv) first. – Allen Jan 23 '19 at 15:25
Issue - rbenv: pod: command not found react-native -> above solution work for me – Kiran Jadhav Mar 24 '22 at 07:18

score 12 · Answer 10 · answered Sep 03 '14 at 08:22

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Try this:

sudo gem install cocoapods -V

and you must update gem to the newest release using this:

sudo gem update --system

if you want to enjoy the fast responce :)

answered Sep 03 '14 at 08:22

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score 12 · Answer 11 · answered Nov 16 '17 at 15:30

Sudo-less installation

If you do not want to grant RubyGems admin privileges for this process, you can tell RubyGems to install into your user directory by passing either the --user-install flag to gem install or by configuring the RubyGems environment. The latter is in our opinion the best solution. To do this, create or edit the .profile file in your home directory and add or amend it to include these lines:

export GEM_HOME=$HOME/.gem
export PATH=$GEM_HOME/bin:$PATH

Note that if you choose to use the --user-install option, you will still have to configure your .profile file to set the PATH or use the command prepended by the full path. You can find out where a gem is installed with gem which cocoapods. E.g.

$ gem install cocoapods --user-install
$ gem which cocoapods
/Users/eloy/.gem/ruby/2.0.0/gems/cocoapods-0.29.0/lib/cocoapods.rb
$ /Users/eloy/.gem/ruby/2.0.0/bin/pod install

Source: https://guides.cocoapods.org/using/getting-started.html

score 8 · Answer 12 · answered Oct 12 '14 at 23:26

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In terminal it's better to run installation of the cocoa pods with "sudo". In other case I'm getting an error: "You don't have write permissions for the /Library/Ruby/Gems/2.0.0 directory."

So the solution is:

sudo gem install cocoapods

answered Oct 12 '14 at 23:26

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score 6 · Answer 13 · answered Jun 01 '20 at 00:27

so I also had the same problem. This is probably happening because your computer has an older version of ruby. So you need to first update your ruby. Mine worked for ruby 2.6.3 version.I got this solution from sStackOverflow,

You need to first open terminal and put this code

curl -L https://get.rvm.io | bash -s stable

Then put this command

rvm install ruby-2.6

This would install the ruby for you if it hasn' t been installed.After this just update the ruby to the new version

rvm use ruby-2.6.3

After this just make ruby 2.6.3 your default

rvm --default use 2.6.3

This would possibly fix your issue. You can now put the command

sudo gem install cocoapods

And the command

pod setup

I hope this was useful

score 3 · Answer 14 · edited Sep 05 '16 at 11:07

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This solution worked for me. Make sure to not miss the last command (export PATH=$PATH:$HOME/Software/ruby/bin).

See This.

edited Sep 05 '16 at 11:07

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answered Oct 20 '15 at 12:19

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score 3 · Answer 15 · answered Jul 03 '18 at 14:13

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install cocoapods from https://cocoapods.org/app

Commands & versions keep onchanging

so download tar and enjoy

answered Jul 03 '18 at 14:13

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score 2 · Answer 16 · answered Dec 18 '13 at 20:22

gterzian is on the right track, however, if you later update your version of ruby then you'll also have to update your .profile to point to the new versioned ruby directory. For instance, the current version of ruby is 2.0.0-p353 so you'd have to add /usr/local/Cellar/ruby/2.0.0-p353/bin to your path instead.

A better solution is to add /usr/local/opt/ruby/bin to your PATH. /usr/local/opt/ruby is actually a symlink to the current version of ruby that homebrew automatically updates when you do an upgrade. That way you'll never need to update your PATH and always be pointing to the latest version.

score 2 · Answer 17 · edited May 23 '17 at 10:31

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If you used homebrew to install ruby, this answer worked for me.

brew unlink ruby && brew link ruby

OSX 10.9.4

edited May 23 '17 at 10:31

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score 2 · Answer 18 · answered Jul 01 '15 at 09:27

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it happens to me when I wrote

gem install cocoapods

instead of

sudo gem install cocoapods

if sudo command is not found also, write

export PATH=/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:$PATH

before sudo command

answered Jul 01 '15 at 09:27

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score 2 · Answer 19 · edited Sep 05 '16 at 11:54

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@Babul Prabhakar was right

IMPORTANT: However,if you still get "pod: command not found" after using his solution, this command could solve your problem:

sudo chown -R $(whoami):admin /usr/local

edited Sep 05 '16 at 11:54

itzmebibin

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answered Oct 22 '15 at 16:50

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score 1 · Answer 20 · answered Jan 08 '21 at 20:20

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The best solution for Big Sur is posted on Redit by _fgmx

Go into Xcode 12 preferences Click locations Select Xcode 12 for Developer tools/command line tools Install cocoapods for Xcode 12: sudo gem install cocoapods

answered Jan 08 '21 at 20:20

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score 1 · Answer 21 · answered Apr 15 '21 at 05:45

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Please remove the Ruby folder from -Your Disk->Library->Ruby Deleting this folder and use sudo gem install cocoapods command to solve my issue.

answered Apr 15 '21 at 05:45

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Not work around – Luvnish Monga Feb 10 '22 at 08:36

score 1 · Answer 22 · answered Jun 04 '21 at 06:35

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This worked for me

sudo apt-get install ruby-dev
sudo gem install cocoapods

answered Jun 04 '21 at 06:35

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score 0 · Answer 23 · answered Dec 14 '15 at 18:33

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We were using an incompatible version of Ruby inside of Terminal (Mac), but once we used RVM to switch to Ruby 2.1.2, Cocoapods came back.

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score 0 · Answer 24 · answered Jul 11 '20 at 14:24

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Install pod sudo gem install cocoapods

Navigate inside platforms/ios cd platforms/ios

Run pod install

answered Jul 11 '20 at 14:24

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score 0 · Answer 25 · answered Aug 31 '20 at 18:16

I'm using OS Catalina and used the solution of Babul Prabhakar. But when I closed the terminal, pod still was unable.

So I put the exports:

$ export GEM_HOME=$HOME/Software/ruby
$ export PATH=$PATH:$HOME/Software/ruby/bin

inside this file(put this command below inside the terminal):

nano ~/.bash_profile

Then save the file, close the terminal and open it up again and type:

pod --version

pod install -bash: pod: command not found

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