Cocoapods: Failed to connect to GitHub to update the CocoaPods/Specs specs repo

Question

When running pod repo update the following error is generated:

Updating spec repo `master`
[!] Failed to connect to GitHub to update the CocoaPo         


        

Answer 1

For me the below commands fixed the issue

Removing cocoapods from mac

 sudo gem uninstall cocoapods

Installing cocoapods on mac

sudo gem install cocoapods

Answer 2

One of the major issue is "weak cryptographic standards removed" after 2018 February.

Here a note: https://github.com/blog/2507-weak-cryptographic-standards-removed

To solve this, first you need to update openssl, then ruby, then cocoapod.

$ which openssl
/usr/bin/openssl

$ openssl version
OpenSSL 0.9.8zh 14 Jan 2016

$ /bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install.sh)"

$ brew update

$ brew install openssl

$ brew upgrade openssl

`` If you need to have this software first in your PATH run: echo 'export PATH="/usr/local/opt/openssl/bin:$PATH"' >> ~/.bash_profile

$ echo 'export PATH="/usr/local/opt/openssl/bin:$PATH"' >> ~/.bash_profile
$ source ~/.bash_profile

$ which openssl
/usr/local/opt/openssl/bin/openssl

$ openssl version
OpenSSL 1.0.2n  7 Dec 2017

$ brew install rbenv ruby-build

$ echo 'export PATH="$HOME/.rbenv/bin:$PATH"' >> ~/.bash_profile
$ echo 'if which rbenv > /dev/null; then eval "$(rbenv init -)"; fi' >> ~/.bash_profile
$ source ~/.bash_profile

$ rbenv install --list

Available versions:
  1.8.5-p52
  1.8.5-p113
  1.8.5-p114
  1.8.5-p115
  1.8.5-p231
  1.8.6
:
  2.5.0-rc1
  2.5.0
  2.5.1
  2.6.0-dev
:

$ rbenv install 2.5.1

$ rbenv versions
* system (set by /Users/username/.rbenv/version)
  2.5.1

$ ruby --version
ruby 2.0.0p648 (2015-12-16 revision 53162) [universal.x86_64-darwin16]

$ rbenv global 2.5.1

$ rbenv versions
  system
* 2.5.1 (set by /Users/username/.rbenv/version)

$ ruby --version
ruby 2.5.1p57 (2018-03-29 revision 63029) [x86_64-darwin16]

$ gem install cocoapods -n /usr/local/bin

$ which pod
/usr/local/bin/pod

$ pod --version
1.5.3

now, you can do

$ pod update

source link: https://qiita.com/satoshi-iwaki/items/ed2c267127dcc80baa21

Answer 3

Anyone facing any similar issue where the remote hangs-up prematurely, use ssh to clone the repo instead.

git clone git@github.com:CocoaPods/Specs.git master.

In order to use SSH to clone a GitHub repo, you need to have a GitHub account and have your SSH keys associated with it.

Follow their documentation here.

Answer 4

This worked like magic

$sudo rm -fr ~/.cocoapods/repos/master
$pod setup
$pod install

Otherwise

$pod setup
Ctrl +C
cd ~/.cocoapods/repos 
$git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/CocoaPods/Specs.git master

Answer 5

Finally managed to solve it by deleting ./cocoapods/repos/master and running pod install.

The more formal solution would probably go like this:

pod repo remove master
pod setup
pod install

If pod install fails after performing the first two steps, you may need to delete your Podfile.lock.

Why it initially failed to connect to Github is beyond me.

Answer 6

This worked for me:

1. Remove Podfile.lock
2. Run pod install