How can I solve common CocoaPods problems?

pod: command not found

Issue description

In Terminal, after running pod init under the root directory of your project, the Terminal prompts pod: command not found.

Reason

CocoaPods is not installed.

Solution

See the following steps to solve the issue:

1. Run sudo gem install cocoapods and input the admin password to install CocoaPods.

2. After CocoaPods is successfully installed, go to the root directory of your project and run pod init again to generate a Podfile under your project folder.

   If you run sudo gem install cocoapods and encounter authority issues such as You don't have write permissions for the /Library/Ruby/Gems/2.3.0 directory , Agora recommends that you run sudo gem install -n /usr/bin cocoapods to install CocoaPods.

Cannot install the latest Agora SDK

Issue description

When you install the Agora SDK, you might encounter the following issues:

• After entering pod 'library_name' in a Podfile and running pod install in Terminal, the Agora SDK that is installed is not the latest version.

• After entering pod 'library_name', 'latest_version' in a Podfile and running pod install in Terminal, the Terminal prompts error messages such as the following:

  [!] CocoaPods could not find compatible versions for pod "AgoraRtcEngine_iOS":
  In Podfile:
    AgoraRtcEngine_iOS (= 3.5.0)
  None of your spec sources contain a spec satisfying the dependency: `AgoraRtcEngine_iOS (= 3.5.0)`.

Reason

The local CocoaPods repository is not updated.

Solution

See the following steps to solve the issue:

1. Run pod repo update in Terminal to update the local CocoaPods repository.
2. Run pod install again to install the latest version of the Agora SDK.