cocoapods - 'pod install' takes forever

Question

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

The verbose mode shows it was stuck at the following

Answer 1

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.

Answer 2

Updated answer for 2019 - the cocoa pods team moved to using their own CDN which solves this issue, which was due to GitHub rate limiting, as described here: https://blog.cocoapods.org/CocoaPods-1.7.2/

TL;DR You need to change the source line in your Podfile to this:

source 'https://cdn.cocoapods.org/'

Answer 3

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

Answer 4

After a half of the day of investigating why Analyzing Dependencies takes forever, I found out that I was installing the latest Firebase pod (7.1.0), which relies on GoogleAppMeasurement version 7.1.0, and there was another pod, which is an ad mediation framework, which includes Google-Mobile-Ads-SDK. This SDK was relying on a much lower version of GoogleAppMeasurement ~ 6.0. I was able to install the pods by commenting out the conflicting pod from the ad mediation. Something like this:

# Ad network framework
  pod 'SomeMediationNetwork/Core'
#  pod 'SomeMediationNetwork/GoogleMobileAds' # - the conflicting pod
  pod 'SomeMediationNetwork/Facebook'
  pod 'SomeMediationNetwork/SmartAdServer'
  pod 'SomeMediationNetwork/Mopub'

I had to contact the ad mediation library publisher to fix this issue, most probably by updating to the latest Google-Mobile-Ads-SDK pod and releasing a new version.

I hope this one helps some other folks who are banging their head

Answer 5

Sometimes happen to me too and I simply:

pod clean
pod update --verbose

Answer 6

Solution for me in 11.2019

Hello i tried a lot of things, but nothing worked. Try just to connect to this site https://cdn.cocoapods.org/ if you can't so just use VPN and do pod install etc. And don't forget to use --verbose for understanding what's happening.