How to downgrade or install an older version of Cocoapods

Asked 10/12, 2013 at 6:42 Answered 31/1 at 11:23

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How can I downgrade Cocoapods to an older version, or how can I install an older version of Cocoapods?

Maestricht answered 10/12, 2013 at 6:42 Comment(0)

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to remove your current version you could just run:

sudo gem uninstall cocoapods

you can install a specific version of cocoa pods via the following command:

sudo gem install cocoapods -v 0.25.0

You can use older installed versions with following command:

pod _0.25.0_ setup

Waldrup answered 10/12, 2013 at 8:30 Comment(7)

To see which version you currently have, run sudo gem list cocoapods – Cavalcade 30/4, 2015 at 19:25

This is brilliant! I had upgraded to 0.38, and with that version I was getting errors. All I had to do to revert to 0.37 was run your comment sudo gem uninstall cocoapods and then pick 0.38 from the automatically presented list. Within seconds I was back on 0.37, and my pod install worked again! Thanks so much! – Vernissage 21/7, 2015 at 2:42

Great thx! Just one comment, if you are using rvm, omit the sudo since its going to uninstall/install in the usr/bin instead of your rvm installation directory – Hutcheson 27/8, 2015 at 13:34

Update... if you call gem uninstall cocoapods it will now ask you which version you want to uninstall. Much quicker! :o) – Ivonneivor 30/9, 2015 at 13:58

Cocoapods 1.0.0 Update: note that if you have 1.0.0 installed, attempting to reinstall an older version on top will leave 1.0.0 as the default version, so you have to sudo gem uninstall cocoapods first, then select 1.0.0 as the version to remove. Not sure if this has always been the behavior, but sudo gem install cocoapods -v 0.39.0 alone didn't do the trick for me once I had 1.0.0. – Paraphrase 23/5, 2016 at 16:43

If you see the error message "You don't have write permissions for the /usr/bin directory." on macOS High Sierra, use: sudo gem install cocoapods -v 1.3.1 -n /usr/local/bin referenced from #2894389 – Grammalogue 25/4, 2018 at 11:17

You can also remove a specific version of cocoapods like: sudo gem uninstall cocoapods -v 1.7.5 . This is specially useful if you want to revert to an older version as removing the current/latest version reverts it back to last installed version. If there is no other version installed you can installed the one you want like: sudo gem install cocoapods -v 1.6.0 – Gonick 14/8, 2019 at 15:53

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Actually, you don't need to downgrade – if you need to use older version in some projects, just specify the version that you need to use after pod command.

pod _0.37.2_ setup

Unwilled answered 2/8, 2015 at 14:28 Comment(6)

Thanks, it kind of worked, but I had some ruby cocoapods-rome warnings so I ended up uninstalling cocoapods completely and installing only the older version. – Sudarium 4/9, 2015 at 8:0

I think this is a much better solution. There are unfortunate situations where you need different versions of cocoa pods for different projects and it's convenient to not have to uninstall and reinstall cocoa pods each time – Magnusson 28/11, 2015 at 5:25

This doesn't work for me, neither pod _0.39.0_ install. If I run that and then run pod --version it still shows the latest version. – Pallette 20/10, 2018 at 20:30

you have to first install it with sudo gem install cocoapods -v 0.39.0 , it will work after that – Hyrcania 12/4, 2019 at 13:41

I can confirm that this doesn't work. Even with the required version installed, Cocoapods ignores the version specified and uses the latest installed version. – Turnheim 24/9, 2019 at 18:53

Just got it to work. I completely uninstalled all traces of cocoapods (using gem list --local as a guide), then installed cocoapods with sudo gem install cocoapods -n /usr/local/bin. Now, doing pod _1.5.3_ install uses 1.5.3 instead of the latest 1.8.0, even with both installed. – Turnheim 24/9, 2019 at 19:22

Several notes:

Make sure you first get a list of all installed versions. I actually had the version I wanted to downgrade to already installed, but ended up uninstalling that as well. To see the list of all your versions do:

sudo gem list cocoapods

Then when you want to delete a version, specify that version.

sudo gem uninstall cocoapods -v 1.6.2

You could remove the version specifier -v 1.6.2 and that would delete all versions:

You may try all this and still see that the Cocoapods you expected is still installed. If that's the case then it might be because Cocoaposa is stored in a different directory.

sudo gem uninstall -n /usr/local/bin cocoapods -v 1.6.2

Then you will have to also install it in a different directory, otherwise you may get an error saying You don't have write permissions for the /usr/bin directory

sudo gem install -n /usr/local/bin cocoapods -v 1.6.1

To check which version is your default do:

pod --version

For more on the directory problem see here

Myotome answered 8/9, 2019 at 15:27 Comment(1)

Great extra detail about the alternative install folders – I needed that, thank you. – Youthen 2/7, 2020 at 9:29

If you need to install an older version (for example 0.25):

pod _0.25.0_ install

Haematocele answered 29/2, 2016 at 13:11 Comment(4)

This doesn't work for me. If I run this and the run pod --version it still shows the latest version. – Pallette 20/10, 2018 at 20:28

pod --version will always show the newest version. Use the example above to install an older version (in the example above the older version is 0.25.0) – Haematocele 22/10, 2018 at 9:13

In my case using pod _1.5.3_ install has the behavior of the new 1.7.x versions, so I'm really questioning about the reliability of this syntax… – Kalmick 14/3, 2019 at 13:47

This DOES work. I was able to use 1.7.5 while my latest version was 1.8.4. – Nadeen 24/2, 2020 at 10:32

PROMPT> gem uninstall cocoapods

Select gem to uninstall:
 1. cocoapods-0.32.1
 2. cocoapods-0.33.1
 3. cocoapods-0.36.0.beta.2
 4. cocoapods-0.38.2
 5. cocoapods-0.39.0
 6. cocoapods-1.0.0
 7. All versions
> 6
Successfully uninstalled cocoapods-1.0.0
PROMPT> gem install cocoapods -v 0.39.0
Successfully installed cocoapods-0.39.0
Parsing documentation for cocoapods-0.39.0
Done installing documentation for cocoapods after 1 seconds
1 gem installed
PROMPT> pod --version
0.39.0
PROMPT>

Duppy answered 21/5, 2016 at 16:0 Comment(1)

This works. Fastlane detects the older version of the cocoapods. which leads to error. – Vanhook 19/4, 2021 at 12:36

In my case I had to uninstall from homebrew

brew uninstall cocoapods

Exorable answered 30/11, 2021 at 23:10 Comment(0)

For brew installed version

One way to fetch a specific version is as follows:

First, you'll probably want to uninstall cocoapods:

brew uninstall cocoapods

Find a suitable cocoapods.rb e.g. by browsing the repo -> https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/6b1477715df13e0ec4305c3420ac0c024867d34a/Formula/c/cocoapods.rb

For cocoapods 1.14.3:

wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/6b1477715df13e0ec4305c3420ac0c024867d34a/Formula/c/cocoapods.rb  # or just download it 

brew install -s cocoapods.rb

Punkah answered 31/1 at 11:23 Comment(0)

Note that your pod specs will remain, and are located at ~/.cocoapods/ . This directory may also need to be removed if you want a completely fresh install.

They can be removed using pod spec remove SPEC_NAME then pod setup

It may help to do pod spec remove master then pod setup

Corcyra answered 10/6, 2015 at 5:23 Comment(0)

In some cases, one needs to remove some hidden artefacts in the home directory so that the up- or downgrade takes effect:

rm -rf ~/.cocoapods

Vulcanism answered 14/4, 2021 at 7:44 Comment(0)

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