Unable to install cocoa pods

Question

I want to install cocoapods on MacOS to run the pod command. But on doing

sudo gem install cocoa-pods

I get the following:

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Answer 1

I think the most reliable solution is to use:

brew install cocoapods

Which should resolve missing / corrupted dependencies on its own.

PS: This obviously involves installing brew, but I am willing to bet you already have it in your system.

Answer 2

Here is what I did on my Mojave machine:

• brew reinstall cocoapods
• brew link --overwrite cocoapods, override the default pod

$ brew reinstall cocoapods
==> Downloading https://homebrew.bintray.com/bottles/cocoapods-1.9.3.mojave.bottle.tar.gz
==> Downloading from https://akamai.bintray.com/07/074e5b53b7a054c132582183dcf47546ffffd028a7beb9fcdc653fe4a43225bcf3?__gda__=exp=1593894546~hmac=8b
######################################################################## 100.0%
==> Reinstalling cocoapods
==> Pouring cocoapods-1.9.3.mojave.bottle.tar.gz
Error: The `brew link` step did not complete successfully
The formula built, but is not symlinked into /usr/local
Could not symlink bin/pod
Target /usr/local/bin/pod
already exists. You may want to remove it:
  rm '/usr/local/bin/pod'

To force the link and overwrite all conflicting files:
  brew link --overwrite cocoapods

To list all files that would be deleted:
  brew link --overwrite --dry-run cocoapods

Possible conflicting files are:
/usr/local/bin/pod
/usr/local/bin/xcodeproj
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Answer 3

I had a similar issue. I solved by installing the latest version of ruby (2.7.2).

First install the Ruby Version Manager rvm:

curl -L https://get.rvm.io | bash -s stable

Then install the latest version of ruby:

rvm install ruby-2.7.2

Finally try again to install the cocoapods:

sudo gem install cocoapods