cocoaPods pod install Permission denied
This is the short version:
When I run
pod install
in an Xcode project I get
[!] Pod::Executable pull error: cannot open .git/FETCH_HEAD: Permission denied
If I run
sudo pod install
I get no error, but my files installed are owned by root and can't compile and I have to chown those files to a normal user to use the Xcode compiler.
I am running Lion OSX.
I installed cocoaPods using
sudo gem install cocoaPods
I had to use sudo because without it I got
ERROR: While executing gem ... (Gem::FilePermissionError)
You don't have write permissions into the /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8 directory.
so now I have a root installed version of cocoaPods that downloads root owned Xcode libraries.
Is sudo installation of cocoaPods the wrong way or normal way?
If normal, is there a way to fix the pod install problem?
Answer
I solved this problem by running the following command:
sudo chown -R $USER ~/Library/Caches/CocoaPods
and
sudo chown -R $USER ~/.cocoapods
Please replace username and groupname with your Mac login username/groupname.