Cannot install cocoa pods after uninstalling, results in error

Question

I removed cocoa pods because it claimed it had installed, but kept saying the command pod wasn't found afterward. When trying to reinstall cocoapods (sudo gem install cocoa pods -v) I get this error:

ERROR: While executing gem ... (Errno::EPERM) Operation not permitted - /usr/bin/pod

Any ideas?

I'm using an administrator account, how would I go about fixing permissions? — Adrian Wacker, Jun 12 '15 at 22:16

score 424 · Answer 1 · edited Jun 20 '20 at 09:12

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As it has been pointed out below by Ramesh Ramchandaran, this is a cleaner way of doing it, instead of getting around the Security features of OS X.

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

Original Answer

I'm assuming you're running OS X 10.11.

This is happening because Apple has enabled rootless on the new install.

If you type:

sudo nvram boot-args="rootless=0"; sudo reboot

in terminal.app, your computer will reboot with it disabled.

Once that is done, type:

sudo gem install cocoapods -V

the -V is for verbose and will spit out any errors if they happen.

edited Jun 20 '20 at 09:12

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answered Jun 15 '15 at 17:10

Kyle Browning

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Thanks! The combined command (including the `sudo reboot`) failed for me and froze the computer on several different attempts. Hard resetting did not keep the nvram settings. I had to run the first command until the semi-colon, and then restart from Apple menu. Then, cocoapods could install. Thank you!!! – BJ Miller Jul 09 '15 at 15:23
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in El Capitan GM the first install (sudo gem install cocoapods -V) didn't work, the second one did though! – Dan Beaulieu Sep 10 '15 at 04:35
what's the downside of disabling rootless? – ppaulojr Nov 17 '15 at 11:32
The downside is Security – Kyle Browning Nov 17 '15 at 20:00
I had this issue after updating my Mac Mini from Yosemite to El Capitan. – Jayprakash Dubey Jul 15 '16 at 12:36
How to choose a older version in this condition? – Ryan Sep 27 '16 at 04:44

score 162 · Answer 2 · answered Aug 03 '15 at 09:28

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As rootless does not affect /usr/local/bin, the following succeeds:

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

Any caveats?

answered Aug 03 '15 at 09:28

Rajesh Ramachandran

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This is a much better solution than mine. – Kyle Browning Aug 05 '15 at 17:42
how long it will take to install.it is taking more time. – Javid Jan 22 '16 at 09:54

score 4 · Answer 3 · answered Aug 12 '15 at 16:23

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Using home-brew or custom $GEM_HOME can help resolving the issue. I did clean installation of ruby with brew: brew install ruby Now the gem stuff seem to happen relative to my /usr/local/bin*, which is exactly what I needed.

answered Aug 12 '15 at 16:23

Drew

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score 1 · Answer 4 · answered Mar 02 '19 at 12:31

I recommend installing all your gems into your .gem folder in your home folder to avoid using sudo or a ruby version manager as other people suggest.

All you have to do is update your .bash_profile by adding these 2 lines. (Don‘t forget to restart your terminal after applying these changes)

export GEM_HOME=~/.gem
export PATH="$GEM_HOME/bin:$PATH"

score -1 · Answer 5 · answered May 01 '16 at 23:21

After updgrading from Yosemite to El Capitan ( 10.11.4), I kept getting the below error message while trying to 'reinstall' Cocoapods ( after trying out pretty much all the solutions under different Stackoverflow threads and the Cocoapods issue-page itself, for the same issue)

"Could not find a valid gem 'cocoapods' (>= 0) in any repository"

However, quit terminal, restarted system, created new Xcode project from the scratch and then when i did 'pod install', it worked.

Note: I was trying to use Alamofire and SwiftyJson cocoapods

Cannot install cocoa pods after uninstalling, results in error

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