Cocoapods

Cocoapods is a library package manager for swift, way before Swift package manager was a thing. Many swift libraries were available using cocoapods “pod file”.

Installation

sudo gem install activesupport -v 6.1.7.3

sudo gem install cocoapods

https://guides.cocoapods.org/using/getting-started.html

Errors

Removing cocoapods generated pods and cache

Source

You could try the following: Clearing CocoaPods' cache:

> rm -rf "${HOME}/Library/Caches/CocoaPods"
> rm -rf "`pwd`/Pods/" (while in your project's dir)
> pod update

If you are using 0.38.0.beta1, you can just use pod cache clean

Regenerate everything:

> rm -rf ~/Library/Caches/CocoaPods
> rm -rf Pods
> rm -rf ~/Library/Developer/Xcode/DerivedData/*
> pod deintegrate
> pod setup
> pod install

CDN sources issue

While running `pod install\ you may encounter some cocoa pods dependency errors and I would document a few of those.

Error

Couldn’t find compatible version

[!] CocoaPods could not find compatible versions for pod "Mapbox-iOS-SDK":
  In Podfile:
    Mapbox-iOS-SDK (~> 5.9)

You could just run the command which is been suggested by Cocoapods CLI itself

pod install --repo-update

I had to change the CDN source due to the issue of Cocoapods dirty tree history Link Stack Overflow discussion here