How to downgrade or install an older version of Cocoapods

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

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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

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

pod _0.25.0_ install

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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

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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>

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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

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In my case I had to uninstall from homebrew

brew uninstall cocoapods

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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

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