cocoapods - 'pod install' takes forever

I was trying to update the existing pods with pod install command, but it takes forever to run.

The verbose mode shows it was stuck at the following line (forever)

Updating spec repo master

$ /usr/bin/git pull --no-rebase --no-commit

There are no network activity after it get stuck.

lmnbeyond

I ran into the same problem, and I solved it by running the following commands which is given here

pod repo remove master
pod setup
pod install

abbood

you can run

pod install --verbose

to see what's going on behind the scenes.. at least you'll know where it's stuck at (it could be a git clone operation that's taking too long because of your slow network etc)

to have an even better idea of why it seems to be stuck (running verbose can get you something like this

-> Installing Typhoon (2.2.1)
 > GitHub download
 > Creating cache git repo (~/Library/Caches/CocoaPods/GitHub/0363445acc1ed036ea1f162b4d8d143134f53b92)
 > Cloning to Pods folder
       $ /usr/bin/git clone https://github.com/typhoon-framework/Typhoon.git ~/Library/Caches/CocoaPods/GitHub/0363445acc1ed036ea1f162b4d8d143134f53b92 --mirror
       Cloning into bare repository '~/Library/Caches/CocoaPods/GitHub/0363445acc1ed036ea1f162b4d8d143134f53b92'...

is to find out the size of the git repo you're cloning.. if you're cloning from github.. you can use this format:

/repos/:user/:repo

so, for example, to find out about the above repo type

https://api.github.com/repos/typhoon-framework/Typhoon

and the returned JSON will have a size key, value. so the above returned

"size": 94014,

which is approx 90mb. no wonder it's taking forever! (btw.. by the time I wrote this.. it just finished.. ha!)

update: one common thing that cocoa pods do before it even starts downloading the dependencies listed in your podfile, is to download/update its own repo (they call it Setting up Cocoapods Master repo.. look at this:

pod install --verbose

Analyzing dependencies

Updating spec repositories
  $ /usr/bin/git rev-parse  >/dev/null 2>&1
  $ /usr/bin/git ls-remote
  From https://github.com/CocoaPods/Specs.git
  09b0e7431ab82063d467296904a85d72ed40cd73  HEAD
  ..

the bad news is that if you follow the above procedure to find out how big the cocoa pod repo is.. you'll get this: "size": 614373,.. which is a lot.

so to get a more accurate way of knowing how long it takes to just install your own repo.. you can set up the cocoa pods master repo separately by using pod setup:

$ pod help setup
Usage:

$ pod setup

  Creates a directory at `~/.cocoapods/repos` which will hold your spec-repos.
  This is where it will create a clone of the public `master` spec-repo from:

      https://github.com/CocoaPods/Specs

  If the clone already exists, it will ensure that it is up-to-date.

then running pod install

Possible solutions:

Updating Cocoa Pods may solve this issue
Clean and fresh install pods again

Updating CocoaPods

Open terminal and type:

$ sudo gem update cocoapods

Reinstall Pods

Step 1

Remove all the pods from your project (tricky part):

Manually

Remove all Pods records on Build Phases of your project (Marked Red)

Remove libPods.a under Frameworks folder

Now head to project directory and remove Podfile.lock*, **Pods folder and Workspace (Remove from Trash too).

Automatically using CocoaPods De-Integrate

Install

$ [sudo] gem install cocoapods-deintegrate

Run

$ pod deintegrate

Step 2

Here we are going through at installing the Pods again

Change your location your directory

$ cd yourprojectdirectory

Edit podfile by adding lines you need to it

$ open -a Xcode podfile

$ nano podfile

FINALLY install the pod again

$ pod install

Hope this helps

I found another way to solve the problem

pod install --verbose --no-repo-update

it works for me.

Ammar Mujeeb

As pointed out here git-remote-http process running in background. I goto this process from Activity Monitor and quitting this process resumed the pod process which was stuck on "Updating local specs repositories" after POD INSTALL

209135

As of 15th August 2016, the repo is a massive 2.39GB file. I opened the Activity Monitor to look at what the terminal was doing. It was downloading this huge file.

Just go through the below step-by-step:

Download https://github.com/CocoaPods/Specs/archive/master.zip

RUN the Below commands in terminal:

pod setup --verbose

Open new tab in the terminal and RUN

mv ~/.cocoapods/repos/master/.git ~/tempSpecsGitFolder

open master.zip (unzipping it)

mv Specs-master ~/.cocoapods/repos/master

mv ~/tempSpecsGitFolder ~/.cocoapods/repos/master/.git

cd [project folder]

pod install --no-repo-update

ArdenDev

This is what worked for me :

Delete all the content under ~/.CocoaPods
Delete your existing Podfile.lock and Pods folder.
Leave your PodFile intact.
Run sudo gem install cocoapods --verbose
Run pod install --verbose

I recommend using the --verbose flag since Terminal is not great when giving progress on a command action. The verbose option helps a lot!

Arun Prasad

Try clearing your CocoaPods cache, re-download and re-install all pods as described here

rm -rf "${HOME}/Library/Caches/CocoaPods"

rm -rf "\`pwd\`/Pods/"

pod update

As mentioned in other answers, It takes forever because the size of cocoapods master repo is huge. This time can be reduced using the following steps.

1) Create a private specs file path on your github repository. Provide this path https://github.com/yourpathForspecs.git' as a source in your podfile.

2) identify ALL the repositories You need and their dependencies( mentioned in the podspec.json file on cocoapods for these repositories) and get their podspec.json files from cocoapods. add these podspec.json files with their folder ( say the latest version folder for bolts) in this specs repository.

3) remove the source 'https://github.com/CocoaPods/Specs.git' in the podfile

4) pod update

This will take significantly less time as this requires fetching and downloading just the pods you need instead of whole cocoapods repository. In My case it reduced the pod update time from 15-20 mins on average to 3-4 mins at most.

Bhavin Chauhan

Pod Installation Steps

First Open Terminal:

chmod o-w /usr/local

sudo chmod o-w /usr/local

sudo gem install cocoapods

if already installed pod in your system then follow the below steps

sudo gem install cocoapods -V

sudo gem update --system

pod setup

cd /Users/apple/Desktop/Black\&WhiteImageDemo

pod init

open -a Xcode Podfile

pod install

eljoe

I had the same problem, I then realized that I was still running Network Conditioner on "Very Bad Network". Turning that off solved the issue.

Hope that helps someone.

I fixed this issue like that:

rm -fr ~/Library/Caches/CocoaPods && \
gem update --system && \
gem update && \
gem cleanup && \
pod setup

Reference: http://blog.cocoapods.org/Repairing-Our-Broken-Specs-Repository/

I had the same issue. After running

pod install
Setting up CocoaPods master repo

The iterm2 was stuck on Setting up CocoaPods.

I solved the issue by running

sudo gem install CocoaPods

This is mentioned in the CocoaPods website

Sometimes happen to me too and I simply:

pod clean
pod update --verbose

Rohit Mandiwal

Even I was thinking the same. If you open Activity Monitor you can see that it is downloading something at there on the name of GIT.

I found this tip useful.

https://stackoverflow.com/a/21916507/563735

来源：https://stackoverflow.com/questions/23755974/cocoapods-pod-install-takes-forever

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