rubygems - 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).

question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/50422786/you-dont-have-write-permissions-for-the-usr-bin-directory-while-installing-co

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.