How to fully uninstall the Cocoapods from the Mac Machine?

I installed Cocoapods version 0.28, and now I want to uninstall it from my machine. How can I do that?

8 Answers

First, determine which version(s) of Cocoapods you have installed by running this in Terminal:

gem list --local | grep cocoapods

You see output similar to this:

cocoapods (0.27.1, 0.20.2)
cocoapods-core (0.27.1, 0.20.2)
cocoapods-downloader (0.2.0, 0.1.2)

Here, I have two versions of Cocoapods installed.

To completely remove, issue the following commands:

gem uninstall cocoapods
gem uninstall cocoapods-core
gem uninstall cocoapods-downloader

If you have multiple versions installed, like I have, it will prompt you to choice a specific version or all. If you want to uninstall a specific version you can also use the -v switch as follows:

gem uninstall cocoapods -v 0.20.2

Running gem list --local | grep cocoapods again will confirm that Cocoapods has been removed.

You may have residual artefacts in a hidden folder in your home directory. Remove these with:

rm -rf ~/.cocoapods

6

I used the following bash script to remove all the relevant gems.

for i in $( gem list --local --no-version | grep cocoapods );
do gem uninstall $i;
done

Additionally delete ~/.cocoapods to remove the cache of podspecs.

rm -rf ~/.cocoapods/

3

gem list --local --no-versions | grep cocoapods | xargs sudo gem uninstall
sudo rm -rf ~/.cocoapods

1

Easy, just run the following command to remove all or just a specific cocoapod gem:

sudo gem uninstall cocoapods

If you have 2 versions of cocoapods installed and you cannot figure out why or how to delete them, I would ask you this ...

At some point in the past, did you run this command?

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

If your answer is yes and you are struggling to find an answer .. do like me and run:

sudo gem uninstall cocoapods -n /usr/local/bin

Get it? :) That should fix the "other" version of cocoapods .. now you are only left with the gem one.

Now you should be ok to just run a sudo gem uninstall cocoapods and then again sudo gem install cocoapods for a clean install.

I would also check this answer as it cleans the caches as well :) .

I was following this answer but for Mac OS X El Capitan 10.11 I was encountering an error as below on executing gem uninstall -n cocoapods command

pranav-MacBook-Pro:~ pranavpranav$ gem uninstall -n cocoapods
ERROR: While executing gem ... (Gem::CommandLineError) Please specify at least one gem name (e.g. gem build GEMNAME)

In order to overcome the issue with permissions you must use the below command

sudo gem uninstall cocoapods -n /usr/local/bin

0

This is what perfectly work for me.

1. Uninstall CocoaPods (choose to uninstall all versions):

   sudo gem uninstall cocoapods

2. Remove old master repo:

   sudo rm -fr ~/.cocoapods/repos/master

2

Remove lib form Podfile, then pod install again.

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