How to downgrade or install an older version of Cocoapods

Question

How can I downgrade Cocoapods to an older version, or how can I install an older version of Cocoapods?

Answer 1

to remove your current version you could just run:

sudo gem uninstall cocoapods

you can install a specific version of cocoa pods via the following command:

sudo gem install cocoapods -v 0.25.0

You can use older installed versions with following command:

pod _0.25.0_ setup

Answer 2

Actually, you don't need to downgrade – if you need to use older version in some projects, just specify the version that you need to use after pod command.

pod _0.37.2_ setup

Answer 3

If you need to install an older version (for example 0.25):

pod _0.25.0_ install

Answer 4

PROMPT> gem uninstall cocoapods

Select gem to uninstall:
 1. cocoapods-0.32.1
 2. cocoapods-0.33.1
 3. cocoapods-0.36.0.beta.2
 4. cocoapods-0.38.2
 5. cocoapods-0.39.0
 6. cocoapods-1.0.0
 7. All versions
> 6
Successfully uninstalled cocoapods-1.0.0
PROMPT> gem install cocoapods -v 0.39.0
Successfully installed cocoapods-0.39.0
Parsing documentation for cocoapods-0.39.0
Done installing documentation for cocoapods after 1 seconds
1 gem installed
PROMPT> pod --version
0.39.0
PROMPT>

Answer 5

Note that your pod specs will remain, and are located at ~/.cocoapods/ . This directory may also need to be removed if you want a completely fresh install.

They can be removed using pod spec remove SPEC_NAME then pod setup

It may help to do pod spec remove master then pod setup