CocoaPods is installed but broken (error bitbucket-pipelines.yml)

[Alexander Shilenkov]

Warning: CocoaPods is installed but broken. Skipping pod install. You appear to have CocoaPods installed but it is not working. This can happen if the version of Ruby that CocoaPods was installed with is different from the one being used to invoke it. This can usually be fixed by re-installing CocoaPods. To re-install see https://guides.cocoapods.org/using/getting-started.html#installation for instructions. CocoaPods not installed or not in valid state.


My bitbucket-pipelines.yml:

- step: &ios-build

name: Build and upload apps to TestFlight

runs-on:

- self.hosted

- macos

caches:

- dartpubcache

script:

- gem uninstall cocoapods

- gem install cocoapods

- pod --allow-root install

- pod --allow-root repo update

- /bin/bash scripts/utils.sh -i -p "${Platform:-ios}" release ${Flavour:-all} ${Environment:-all}

Tell me how to solve the problem?

[Patrik S · Accepted solution]

Hello @Alexander Shilenkov ,

and welcome to the Community!

Based on the YAML configuration you have provided, it appears that you are utilizing MacOS self-hosted runners.

These runners operate within a shell session directly on your Mac, granting them complete access to your Mac environment and all installed components. Essentially, the runner will execute commands in a manner similar to opening a terminal session on your Mac and entering commands manually.

This means that any executable installed on your Mac will already be available to the runner, so you will not need to install it again as part of your pipeline scripts.

That being said, the error message seems to come from some conflict in the pipeline trying to reinstall a different version of CocoaPods, which is already installed on your Mac, causing that conflict.

I suggest that you first install and test CocoaPods on your Mac directly by opening a terminal session and executing the commands manually. Once you get it working, you can then test your build again, but now remove the install and uninstall commands from the build as they are not required since CocoaPods is already installed in the runner's host.

Hope that helps! Should you have any questions, feel free to ask.

Thank you, @Alexander Shilenkov !

Patrik S

[Alexander Shilenkov]

Thanks, I removed the commands - gem uninstall cocoapods
- gem install cocoapods
- pod --allow-root install
- pod --allow-root repo update

and deleted

runs-on:

- self.hosted

- macos

and it works for now, it’s strange that before that asked for installation CocoaPods

While it works

My bitbucket-pipelines.yml:

- step: &ios-build

name: Build and upload apps to TestFlight

caches:

- dartpubcache

script:

- /bin/bash scripts/utils.sh -i -p "${Platform:-ios}" release ${Flavour:-all} ${Environment:-all}

[Alexander Shilenkov]

Can I specify the path to the ios directory to run pod install there?