cocoaPods pod install Permission denied

Question

This is the short version:

When I run

pod install 

in an Xcode project I get

[!] Pod::Executable pull erro

Answer 1

I solved this problem by running the following command:

sudo chown -R $USER ~/Library/Caches/CocoaPods

and

sudo chown -R $USER ~/.cocoapods

Please replace username and groupname with your Mac login username/groupname.

Answer 2

I solved it by installing the most up to date version of Ruby. Instructions here: https://gorails.com/setup/osx/10.12-sierra I was then able to successfully run sudo gem update sudo gem install cocoapods

Answer 3

I only used (where username is your Mac login username)

sudo chown -R username ~/Library/Caches/CocoaPods

and

sudo chown -R username ~/.cocoapods

when I tried with the groupname parameter I got

chown: username.groupname: illegal user name

Of course I used my own username and groupname :)

Answer 4

With all the errors that I got while installing CocoaPods in some of my projects, I've finally succeeded in finding a pattern with it. Here it is:

1. Access your project folder from the terminal:

   $ cd /Users/username/Downloads/MessagesTableViewController-master
   

2. Create a podfile:

   $ touch podfile
   $ open -e podfile
   

3. After the podfile is created, access it via the Finder and edit it in any other text editor except TextEdit because TextEdit sometimes messes up with apostrophes in the pod file. I used textWrangler. Write the following in the pod file; (Note these dependencies are for projects that support iOS version 6.0 and above)

   platform :ios, '6.0'
   pod 'AFNetworking'
   

4. Save the file and close it.

5. Go back to the terminal and see your pod version:

   $ pod --version
   

   Depending on your pod version, if an update is required, run this command:

   $ sudo gem update
   

6. After the update completes, or it states that it is already up-to-date, you should install the cocoapods:

   $ sudo gem install cocoapods
   

7. And at the very end, just run the following commands:

   $ sudo pod setup
   $ sudo pod install
   

And Viola! It is done. You'll see a Pods named folder within your project folder and the dependency you stated in the pod file will be apparent in Pods folder as a sub-folder.

Happy coding :)

Answer 5

It's just need to add permission flag --user-install
For updating use:
sudo gem update --user-install
And for installing use:
sudo gem install --user-install cocoapods

Answer 6

Removing the directories worked for me:

sudo rm -R  ~/Library/Caches/CocoaPods
sudo rm -R  ~/.cocoapods/repos

If some other problems still exist.

Remove the Pods directory and the podFile.lock file.

Cocoapods just adds the directories again.