pod install -bash: pod: command not found

Question

I installed pod some time ago. However, it\'s stopped working so I\'m working through this again.

However, I almost immediately run into a problem here:

Answer 1

Installing CocoaPods on OS X 10.11

These instructions were tested on all betas and the final release of El Capitan.

Custom GEM_HOME

This is the solution when you are receiving above error

$ mkdir -p $HOME/Software/ruby
$ export GEM_HOME=$HOME/Software/ruby
$ gem install cocoapods
[...]
1 gem installed
$ export PATH=$PATH:$HOME/Software/ruby/bin
$ pod --version
0.38.2

Answer 2

I had the same problem, running Mountain Lion with Ruby 2 installed and used instead of system ruby.

Previously I added PATH=/usr/local/bin:$PATH to my ~/.bash_profile as a way to make sure stuff installed by homebrew, including Ruby 2, took precedence over system-installed binaries.

Anyway, in this case I noticed that cocoapods would install their 'pod' binary not in /usr/local/bin but rather in /usr/local/Cellar/ruby/2.0.0-p247/bin/

So to my .bash_profile I added PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/Cellar/ruby/2.0.0-p247/bin/ and now cocoapods is working like a charm.

Answer 3

Sudo-less installation

If you do not want to grant RubyGems admin privileges for this process, you can tell RubyGems to install into your user directory by passing either the --user-install flag to gem install or by configuring the RubyGems environment. The latter is in our opinion the best solution. To do this, create or edit the .profile file in your home directory and add or amend it to include these lines:

export GEM_HOME=$HOME/.gem
export PATH=$GEM_HOME/bin:$PATH

Note that if you choose to use the --user-install option, you will still have to configure your .profile file to set the PATH or use the command prepended by the full path. You can find out where a gem is installed with gem which cocoapods. E.g.

$ gem install cocoapods --user-install
$ gem which cocoapods
/Users/eloy/.gem/ruby/2.0.0/gems/cocoapods-0.29.0/lib/cocoapods.rb
$ /Users/eloy/.gem/ruby/2.0.0/bin/pod install

Source: https://guides.cocoapods.org/using/getting-started.html

Answer 4

@Babul Prabhakar was right

IMPORTANT: However,if you still get "pod: command not found" after using his solution, this command could solve your problem:

sudo chown -R $(whoami):admin /usr/local

Answer 5

try: rbenv global system and then sudo gem install cocoapods pod setup

Answer 6

install cocoapods from https://cocoapods.org/app

Commands & versions keep onchanging

so download tar and enjoy