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Posted by Christian A. Castro
Christian A. Castro
30,501 Points

unable to install Cocoapods

My version is 10.11.6 OS X El Capitan..

I went to the terminal and I typed: gem uninstall cocoapods and hit enter and then I typed: gem install cocoapods

but then it says: Error While executing gem. You don't have write permissions for the/Library/Ruby/Gems/2.0.0/directory.

am I forgetting another step guys, help !! thank in advance..

1 Answer

Jennifer Nordell
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Jennifer Nordell
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Hi there! Because it is saying that permission is denied it's likely that you'll have to run this command as a super user. To do this, use sudo before the command you're issuing. It will likely ask you for your password to the computer you're logged into. So try this: sudo gem install cocoapods. Hope this helps! :sparkles:

Christian A. Castro
Christian A. Castro
30,501 Points

Jennifer Cordell thank you!!! it works.. the last one says: fetching: activesupport - 5.0.0.1. gem (100%) Error: Error installing cocoapods: active support requires Ruby version >= 2.2.2.

I mean everything went alright.. just the last one .. thank you again !!!