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I am taking a course from Udemy for iOS 10 (swift 3) programming. An app works with Firebase and Firebase requires a pod file. In the course, it said to type the following commands in Terminal to install a pod:

          cd Desktop/
          ln
          cd dc-social
          ln
          pod init

But when I run the pod init command, it gives me an error: 

      -bash: pod: command not found

I am running macOS Sierra (the final release). What should I do? Any help would be appreciated :) Thanks!

Eric Aya
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ojassethi
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    Perhaps need to install https://cocoapods.org/app – cloud1 Oct 06 '16 at 16:14
  • @cloud1 thanks for helping but it still isn't working. I try to install the command line interface but CocoaPods asks me for my password but it doesn't install it for some reason. Can you help me here? – ojassethi Oct 07 '16 at 04:45
  • I have taken the same course and have the same problem. Someone please help! – Rishi Nov 01 '16 at 14:51
  • I had the same problem, you need to install cocoapods into your project directory. Check this link, this could solve my problem: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXLyB9NVouk – Ghasem Tabatabaei Aug 05 '17 at 22:23

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try to run this first (it will ask your admin password)

sudo gem install -n /usr/local/bin cocoapods
Almazini
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In my case I was unable to install with gem (sudo gem install cocoapods) but successfully installed with homebrew:

brew install cocoapods
2e0byo
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Hammad Siraj
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I am in the same course and got the same problem. I found out that we have to install cocapods before we run that command. So do the following in your terminal (it will ask for your password):

sudo gem install cocoapods

This will install some stuff and then you will be able to run the "init pod command".

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Muhammad Shafiq
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Maybe a little late, but often you can't do a sudo when your not an admin. Then do this, open the terminal. Change to an admin user with

su 'theadminName'

Type the admin password. Then do 

sudo gem install cocoapods
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