You don't have write permissions for the /usr/bin directory. while installing Cocoapods

Question

I'm trying to install Cocoapods using the following command on my Mac:

sudo gem install cocoapods

But I'm getting the following error:

ERROR:  While executing gem ... (Gem::FilePermissionError)
    You don't have write permissions for the /usr/bin directory.

Really doesn't make sense as I'm doing is via sudo as the root user. Any help will be appreciated!

I'm using gem version 2.7.7 (latest as of today).

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Answer 1

Try this, It worked for me

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

This answer has information on why /usr/bin is protected.

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Answer 2

For those of you where this solution does not work (like me), here was something that helped me..

For Mac mini m2 (also mb pro M1 tested):

open terminal and

curl -L https://get.rvm.io | bash -s stable

to get rvm...

Reopen the terminal and install ruby via rvm

rvm install ruby-3.1.1 
rvm use ruby-3.1.1 
rvm --default use 3.1.1

Now you can install cocoapods like before..

sudo gem install cocoapods

This was the only solution that helped me.

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