Pod install is staying on "Setting up CocoaPods Master repo"

Question

I'm cloning a project from a git repo, but when I execute pod install the first line I see is "Setting up CocoaPods Master repo" and after that I can't see anything more, the console stops there.

I don't know what is happening. Anyone knows what's happening here? Why Does CocoaPods stop there?

Answer 1

You could try running in verbose mode:

pod install --verbose

That'll show you what cocoa pods are up to:

Setting up CocoaPods master repo

Cloning spec repo `master` from `https://github.com/CocoaPods/Specs.git` (branch `master`)
  $ /usr/bin/git clone 'https://github.com/CocoaPods/Specs.git' master
  Cloning into 'master'...

(as suggested here)

For me the above step took quite a long time as the repo (Dec 2016) is now 1.1 GB

Answer 2

I used the following 4 commands

cd ~/.cocoapods/repos
git clone "https://github.com/CocoaPods/Specs" master --depth 1
cd master
git fetch --unshallow
pod setup

I took time as expected, but at least I didn't have to stair at the screen wondering whats happening in the background.

Answer 3

When CocoaPods is doing that it is downloading the entire specs repo to ~/.cocoapods. This could take a while depending on your connection. I would try doing it explicitly first with pod setup

Answer 4

The issue is that you haven't got command line tools installed, I believe. Try run in terminal:

sudo gem update --system

after that download command line tools from Apple just search for 'Command Line Tools' and download the right version for your OS. Once you install it run in terminal:

sudo gem install cocoapods
pod setup

Answer 5

I had the same issue. I had solve it using the below command.

git clone `https://github.com/CocoaPods/Specs.git ~/.cocoapods/repos/master`

Answer 6

Try this command to track its work.

while true; do
  du -sh ~/.cocoapods/
  sleep 3
done

Answer 7

None of the solutions above worked for me, I had to uninstall coacoapods, then installed a specific version before everything worked for me

sudo gem uninstall cocoapods

then

sudo gem install cocoapods -v 1.7.5

now even verbose shows progress

$ pod setup --verbose

Setting up CocoaPods master repo

Cloning spec repo `master` from `https://github.com/CocoaPods/Specs.git` (branch `master`)
  $ /usr/bin/git clone https://github.com/CocoaPods/Specs.git --progress -- master
  Cloning into 'master'...
  remote: Enumerating objects: 295, done.        
  remote: Counting objects: 100% (295/295), done.        
  remote: Compressing objects: 100% (283/283), done.        
  Receiving objects:  20% (744493/3722462), 132.93 MiB | 567.00 KiB/s   

Answer 8

May be this information will be helpful:

Official answer: http://blog.cocoapods.org/Master-Spec-Repo-Rate-Limiting-Post-Mortem/

As a result of this discussion https://github.com/CocoaPods/CocoaPods/issues/4989

Briefly: CocoaPods repository experiences a huge volume of fetches from GitHub and it was the problem. Changes have been available since version 1.0.0.beta.6.

Tips from this document:

If for whatever reason you cannot upgrade to version 1.0.0 just yet, you can perform the following steps to convert your clone of the Master spec-repo from a shallow to a full clone:

$ cd ~/.cocoapods/repos/master
$ git fetch --unshallow

My hack to first installation:

1. pod setup
2. Ctrl+C
After that I could find ~/.cocoapods/repos/ empty directory 
3. Download  https://github.com/CocoaPods/Specs/archive/master.zip
4. unpack it to ~/.cocoapods/repos/
5. Move to project folder
6. pod install --no-repo-update

Today it takes near 15 minutes

Answer 9

I have an alternative solution that I currently use. By changing the repository URL in Podfile to:

source 'https://cdn.cocoapods.org/'

changes:

- source 'https://github.com/CocoaPods/Specs.git'
+ source 'https://cdn.cocoapods.org/'

Answer 10

pod setup works and should only take 10 mins on a solid connection. After that run: pod install --verbose and you should see all the comments you would normally see when running a dependancy manager.

Hope that helps

Answer 11

I'm monitoring the download progress by using

while true; 
do   
du -sh ~/.cocoapods/;   
sleep 3; 
done

the progress is very slow... and failed few times. But somehow after increasing the git buffer limit by using this command line git config --global http.postBuffer 2M The download speed is improving greatly and after downloading in total 347 Mb on ./cocoapods folder, the progress seems to stop and network activity is also stopping. but after waiting few minutes, turn out that cocoapod is verifying and extracting the repo and makes the total size up to 853 Mb.

notes: I'm doing it on 23 Oct 2016.

Answer 12

This happens only once.

• Master repo has +-1GB (November 2016).

• To track the progress you can use activity monitor app and look for git-remote-https.

• Next time it (pod setup or pod repo update) will only fast update all spec-repos in ~/.cocoapods/repos.

Answer 13

pod setup --verbose 

I am running the above mentioned command right now but as mentioned by @Joe Blow, it shows absolutely no information on the progress.

But if you open the Activity Monitor on Mac (Task Manager on Windows?), under the 'Network' tab you will see a process named 'git-remote-https' and it shows the size of 'Received Bytes' increasing. After downloading about 300MB it stopped and then I could see further progress in the Terminal window.

Answer 14

As of cocoapods 1.7.2 you can use the cdn instead of github. It's blazing fast and it won't hang. :) The cdn is default from cocopods 1.8.0 onwards.

To use the CDN source in your Podfile:

If you don't have private specs:

source 'https://cdn.cocoapods.org/'

If you have private specs:

source 'https://github.com/artsy/Specs.git'
- source 'https://github.com/CocoaPods/Specs.git'
+ source 'https://cdn.cocoapods.org/'

Doing this will break your Podfile.lock, so you are likely to need to run pod update to see the changes (be careful, this may update your Pods also).

If you have a CI setup, it is recommended to cache the new repo dir as it is very small and would save even more time. With 1.7.2 it should be located at ~/.cocoapods/repos/cocoapods- (yes, with a -), but we're looking to improve the naming in an upcoming release.

More info:

• CocoaPods 1.7.2 — Master Repo CDN is Finalized!
• CocoaPods 1.8 Beta is Here!

Answer 15

I Faced same problem but it work for.I executed the Pod Install Command Before 3 Hour ago after that its updated what i want. You just need to Keep tracking the "Activity Monitor" You can see their "git remote https" or "Git" in disk tab. It will download around 330 Mb then it shows 1 GB and After some minutes it will starts installing. No need to Execute extra command.

Note : during downloading your MAC need to in continuously Active mode.If your system goes in sleep mode then CPU stop the process and you will get a error Like Add manually.

Answer 16

What I tried and faster than clonning the repo:

1. pod setup
2. Ctrl +C after creating the master directory
3. Download .zip from https://github.com/CocoaPods/Specs master
4. Copy the content to ~/.cocoapods/repos
5. pod install --no-repo-update in my project folder

After that I finally could see the pods being installed

Good luck!

EDIT: The zip size is 144 MB (Jul 6 2017)

Answer 17

pod install or pod setup fetches whole repo with history when you first time run it. You don't need that commit history.

pod setup
Ctrl +C
cd ~/.cocoapods/repos 
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/CocoaPods/Specs.git master

It takes around 2 mins on decent network connection (4Mbps). master directory is around 519M big.

Answer 18

Just setup the master repo, was excited to see that we have a download progress, see screenshot ;)

CocoaPods release 1.2.0 (Jan 28) fixes this issue, thanks to all contributors and Danielle Tomlinson for this release.

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Answer 19

Nothing above worked for me, so this is what worked:

pod setup
Ctrl +C
pod repo remove master
cd ~/.cocoapods/repos 
git clone https://github.com/CocoaPods/Specs master

Once completed it worked.

Cheers!

Answer 20

You will have to remove the repo and re-setup it...

pod repo remove master
pod setup

Answer 21

Cocoa pods - reduce wait times to 10% ( on Mac OS ) :

1- type pod setup in your project folder ( first you have to be in the project folder) from terminal in Mac OS.

2- CTRL+z to stop after it creates master directory ( folder ) [you can see it in your cocoa pods folder location : ~/.cocoapods/repos]

3. Download .zip from 

   https://github.com/CocoaPods/Specs

    master branch ( its 301 MB) , Extract it . It will take approx 5-10 mins

4.Copy the content to ~/.cocoapods/repos ( now here you only need to copy the contents inside the master folder , so make sure that master folder is created already with pod setup command )

5- once you copy it ( or I should say move , drag and drop as copying will take forever , as its very large ), you can then do pod install --no-repo-update 6- your pods in the pod file now will start installing Here is a screenshot