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Can't run sudo pod install after updating to cocoapods 0.32.1 with error "You cannot run CocoaPods as root. (CLAide::Help)"


I found an issue when running sudo pod install command after updating it to latest version 0.32.1. Earlier it was working very fine.

When I tried to do pod install with older cocoapods, it asked me to update to latest cocoapods version i.e. 0.32.1. After I updated by cocoapods gem, I can't do sudo pod install in my Xcode project. It gives me following error.

± sudo pod install                                                                                                            ruby-1.9.3-p0
Password:
/Users/username/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p0/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/claide-0.5.0/lib/claide/command.rb:328:in `help!': [!] You cannot run CocoaPods as root. (CLAide::Help)

CocoaPods, the Objective-C library package manager.

Commands:....

Any suggestion to overcome the issue would be very helpful. Thanks in advance.


Solution

  • I had to update permission on CocoaPods

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

    sudo chown -R $USER ~/.cocoapods

    Since it seems to fix the problem for some people, you might want to try running "pod install" and see if it fixed your problem from that point. However, I still had a permission denied when running "pod install" for a pod item, so running the next line will overwrite permission for the pod folder.

    sudo chown -R $USER ./Pods

    I have removed the old podfile.lock before running pod install

    Source :

    cocoaPods pod install Permission denied

    https://github.com/CocoaPods/CocoaPods/issues/509