cocoapods - pod install takes forever

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I was trying to update the existing pods with the pod install command  but it takes forever to run  The verbose mode shows it was stuck at the following line  forever   Updating spec repo master    usr bin git pull --no-rebase --no-commit  There is no network activity after it gets stuck

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I had the same problem  I then realized that I was still running Network Conditioner on  Very Bad Network   Turning that off solved the issue   Hope that helps someone

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Just go through the below step-by-step   Download https   github com CocoaPods Specs archive master zip  RUN the Below commands in terminal   pod setup --verbose  Open new tab in the terminal and RUN  mv    cocoapods repos master  git   tempSpecsGitFolder  open master zip  unzipping it   mv Specs-master    cocoapods repos master  mv   tempSpecsGitFolder    cocoapods repos master  git  cd  project folder   pod install --no-repo-update

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you can run  pod install --verbose    to see what s going on behind the scenes   at least you ll know where it s stuck at  it could be a git clone operation that s taking too long because of your slow network etc   to have an even better idea of why it seems to be stuck  running verbose can get you something like this  - gt  Installing Typhoon  2 2 1    gt  GitHub download   gt  Creating cache git repo    Library Caches CocoaPods GitHub 0363445acc1ed036ea1f162b4d8d143134f53b92    gt  Cloning to Pods folder           usr bin git clone https   github com typhoon-framework Typhoon git   Library Caches CocoaPods GitHub 0363445acc1ed036ea1f162b4d8d143134f53b92 --mirror        Cloning into bare repository    Library Caches CocoaPods GitHub 0363445acc1ed036ea1f162b4d8d143134f53b92       is to find out the size of the git repo you re cloning   if you re cloning from github   you can use this format    repos  user  repo   so  for example  to find out about the above repo type   https   api github com repos typhoon-framework Typhoon   and the returned JSON will have a size key  value  so the above returned    size   94014    which is approx 90mb  no wonder it s taking forever   btw   by the time I wrote this   it just finished   ha      update  one common thing that cocoa pods do before it even starts downloading the dependencies listed in your podfile  is to download update its own repo  they call it Setting up Cocoapods Master repo   look at this   pod install --verbose  Analyzing dependencies  Updating spec repositories      usr bin git rev-parse   gt  dev null 2 gt  amp 1      usr bin git ls-remote   From https   github com CocoaPods Specs git   09b0e7431ab82063d467296904a85d72ed40cd73  HEAD        the bad news is that if you follow the above procedure to find out how big the cocoa pod repo is   you ll get this   size   614373    which is a lot   so to get a more accurate way of knowing how long it takes to just install your own repo   you can set up the cocoa pods master repo separately by using pod setup     pod help setup Usage     pod setup    Creates a directory at     cocoapods repos  which will hold your spec-repos    This is where it will create a clone of the public  master  spec-repo from         https   github com CocoaPods Specs    If the clone already exists  it will ensure that it is up-to-date    then running pod install

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I fixed this issue like that   rm -fr   Library Caches CocoaPods  amp  amp    gem update --system  amp  amp    gem update  amp  amp    gem cleanup  amp  amp    pod setup   Reference  http   blog cocoapods org Repairing-Our-Broken-Specs-Repository

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Found an alternative way to download cocoapods is to download one of the snapshots available here  It is a bit old but the  bz2 compressed file was much faster to download  Once I had downloaded it  I copied it over to    cocoapods repos  and then I unzipped it using bzip2 -dk   bz2  The unzipping took a while and once it was over  I changed the extension of the newly uncompressed file to  tar and did tar xvf   tar to unzip that  This will show the list of files being created and will also take a while  Finally when I ran pod repo list while inside the project folder  it showed the master folder had been added as a repo  Because I still kept getting an error that it was unable to find the specification for the pod I was looking for  I went to the master folder and did git fetch and then git merge  The git fetch took the longest  about an hour at 50 KB s  I used fetch and merge instead of pull  as I was having issues with it  i e  fatal  the remote end hung up unexpectedly  It is now up to date and I was able to get the pod I wanted

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As mentioned in other answers  It takes forever because the size of cocoapods master repo is huge  This time can be reduced using the following steps    1  Create a private specs file path on your github repository  Provide this path https   github com yourpathForspecs git  as a source in your podfile    2  identify ALL the repositories You need and their dependencies  mentioned in the podspec json file on cocoapods for these repositories  and get their podspec json files from cocoapods  add these podspec json files with their folder   say the latest version folder for bolts  in this specs repository    3  remove the source  https   github com CocoaPods Specs git  in the podfile   4  pod update   This will take significantly less time as this requires fetching and downloading just the pods you need instead of whole cocoapods repository   In My case it reduced the pod update time from 15-20 mins on average to 3-4 mins at most

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Updated answer for 2019 - the cocoa pods team moved to using their own CDN which solves this issue  which was due to GitHub rate limiting  as described here  https   blog cocoapods org CocoaPods-1 7 2   TL DR You need to change the source line in your Podfile to this   source  https   cdn cocoapods org

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Try clearing your CocoaPods cache  re-download and re-install all pods as described here  rm -rf    HOME  Library Caches CocoaPods   rm -rf    pwd   Pods    pod update

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This is what worked for me      Delete all the content under    CocoaPods Delete your existing Podfile lock and Pods folder  Leave your PodFile intact  Run sudo gem install cocoapods --verbose Run pod install --verbose   I recommend using the --verbose flag since Terminal is not great when giving progress on a command action  The verbose option helps a lot

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As pointed out here git-remote-http process running in background  I goto this process from Activity Monitor and quitting this process resumed the pod process which was stuck on  Updating local specs repositories  after POD INSTALL

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As of 15th August 2016  the repo is a massive 2 39GB file  I opened the Activity Monitor to look at what the terminal was doing  It was downloading this huge file

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Even I was thinking the same  If you open Activity Monitor you can see that it is downloading something at there on the name of GIT   I found this tip useful   https   stackoverflow com a 21916507 563735

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I found another way to solve the problem  pod install --verbose --no-repo-update  it works for me

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Possible solutions    Updating Cocoa Pods may solve this issue Clean and fresh install pods again     Updating CocoaPods  Open terminal and type     sudo gem update cocoapods     Reinstall Pods  Step 1  Remove all the pods from your project  tricky part    Manually   Remove all Pods records on Build Phases of your project  Marked Red       Remove libPods a under Frameworks folder      Now head to project directory and remove Podfile lock     Pods folder and Workspace  Remove from Trash too     Automatically using CocoaPods De-Integrate  Install     sudo  gem install cocoapods-deintegrate   Run    pod deintegrate     Step 2  Here we are going through at installing the Pods again   Change your location your directory    cd yourprojectdirectory   Edit podfile by adding lines you need to it    open -a Xcode podfile    or    nano podfile   FINALLY install the pod again    pod install     Hope this helps

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Sometimes happen to me too and I simply   pod clean pod update --verbose

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After a half of the day of investigating why Analyzing Dependencies takes forever  I found out that I was installing the latest Firebase pod  7 1 0   which relies on GoogleAppMeasurement version 7 1 0  and there was another pod  which is an ad mediation framework  which includes Google-Mobile-Ads-SDK  This SDK was relying on a much lower version of GoogleAppMeasurement   6 0  I was able to install the pods by commenting out the conflicting pod from the ad mediation  Something like this    Ad network framework   pod  SomeMediationNetwork Core     pod  SomeMediationNetwork GoogleMobileAds    - the conflicting pod   pod  SomeMediationNetwork Facebook    pod  SomeMediationNetwork SmartAdServer    pod  SomeMediationNetwork Mopub   I had to contact the ad mediation library publisher to fix this issue  most probably by updating to the latest Google-Mobile-Ads-SDK pod and releasing a new version  I hope this one helps some other folks who are banging their head

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I had the same issue  After running  pod install Setting up CocoaPods master repo   The iterm2 was stuck on Setting up CocoaPods   I solved the issue by running  sudo gem install CocoaPods   This is mentioned in the CocoaPods website

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Solution for me in 11 2019  Hello i tried a lot of things  but nothing worked  Try just to connect to this site https   cdn cocoapods org  if you can t so just use VPN and do pod install etc  And don t forget to use --verbose for understanding what s happening

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I ran into the same problem  and I solved it by running the following commands which is given here  pod repo remove master pod setup pod install

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