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Ryan Yiada
Ryan Yiada

Reputation: 4769

What is causing this error - "Fatal error: Unable to find local grunt"

I removed the old version of grunt first, then I installed the new grunt version, and then I got this error:

D:\www\grunt-test\grunt grunt-cli: The grunt command line interface. (v0.1.4)

Fatal error: Unable to find local grunt.

If you're seeing this message, either a Gruntfile wasn't found or grunt hasn't been installed locally to your project. For more information about installing and configuring grunt, please see the Getting Started guide: http://gruntjs.com/getting-started

Is this because there is not a reference to grunt in my system path? Or something else? I tried to re-install it a few times already.

Upvotes: 405

Views: 499710

Answers (13)

Vinod Kumar
Vinod Kumar

Reputation: 1311

You can simply run this command:

npm install grunt --save-dev

Upvotes: 2

user1012513
user1012513

Reputation: 2365

I had the same issue in Vagrant.

I have used sudo to run the command to install. 

sudo npm install -g grunt-cli

It worked for me.

Upvotes: 0

mlncn
mlncn

Reputation: 3366

None of the above worked for me because i had grunt installed globally (recommended in several of these answers, oddly) and that was messing everything up. Here's what did work:

npm uninstall -g grunt
npm install

Only now was a local grunt installed, and useable, for me.

Upvotes: 2

Miku Ghoul
Miku Ghoul

Reputation: 724

Just npm install to install node_modules

Upvotes: 1

Max
Max

Reputation: 539

I had to execute the following commands on ubuntu to solve this problem (I know grunt for 1 hour) :

sudo npm install -g grunt
sudo npm install -g grunt-cli

cd /usr/local/bin
# current symlink points to ../lib/node_modules/grunt/bin/grunt*
sudo rm /usr/local/bin/grunt
sudo ln -s ../lib/node_modules/grunt-cli/bin/grunt* grunt

It is dirty but it is the only one solution I found... :(

Upvotes: 3

LJT
LJT

Reputation: 1289

Being new to grunt and setting it up, I am running (perhaps foolishly) my grunt project/folder from a Google Drive so I can access the same code/builds from either my laptop or workstation.

There is a fair bit of synchronisation of the nodes_modules folders back to Google Drive and there seemed to be a conflict at some point, and the /nodes_modules/grunt folder was renamed to /nodes_modules/grunt (1)

Renaming it back by removing the (1) seemed to fix it for me.

Upvotes: 0

Tomer Ben David
Tomer Ben David

Reputation: 8906

It says you don't have a local grunt so try:

npm install grunt

(without the -g it's a local grunt)

Though not directly related, make sure you have Gruntfile.js in your current folder.

Upvotes: 5

Anshul
Anshul

Reputation: 9480

I think you don't have a grunt.js file in your project directory. Use grunt:init, which gives you options such as jQuery, node,commonjs. Select what you want, then proceed. This really works. For more information you can visit this.

Do this: 

 1. npm install -g grunt
 2. grunt:init  ( you will get following options ):
      jquery: A jQuery plugin
      node: A Node module
      commonjs: A CommonJS module
      gruntplugin: A Grunt plugin
      gruntfile: A Gruntfile (grunt.js)
 3 .grunt init:jquery (if you want to create a jQuery related project.).

It should work.

Solution for v1.4:

1. npm install -g grunt-cli
2. npm init
   fill all details and it will create a package.json file.
3. npm install grunt (for grunt dependencies.)

Edit : Updated solution for new versions: 

 npm install grunt --save-dev

Upvotes: 306

misterzik
misterzik

Reputation: 1890

I made the mistake to install some packages using sudo and other without privileges , this fixed my problem.

sudo chown -R $(whoami) $HOME/.npm

hope it helps someone.

Upvotes: 7

Nick Schaubeck
Nick Schaubeck

Reputation: 71

Could be a few problems here depending on what version of grunt is being used. Newer versions of grunt actually specify that you have a file named Gruntfile.js (instead of the old grunt.js).

You should have the grunt-cli tool be installed globally (this is done via npm install -g grunt-cli). This allows you to actually run grunt commands from the command line.

Secondly make sure you've installed grunt locally for your project. If you see your package.json doesn't have something like "grunt": "0.4.5" in it then you should do npm install grunt --save in your project directory.

Upvotes: 4

superluminary
superluminary

Reputation: 49232

Install Grunt in node_modules rather than globally

Unable to find local Grunt likely means that you have installed Grunt globally.

The Grunt CLI insists that you install grunt in your local node_modules directory, so Grunt is local to your project.

This will fail:

npm install -g grunt

Do this instead:

npm install grunt --save-dev

Upvotes: 196

Klas Mellbourn
Klas Mellbourn

Reputation: 44417

Do

npm install

to install Grunt locally in ./node_modules (and everything else specified in the package.json file)

Upvotes: 87

Anthony Kong
Anthony Kong

Reputation: 40824

If you already have a file package.json in the project and it contains grunt in dependency, 

  "devDependencies": {
    "grunt": "~0.4.0",

Then you can run npm install to resolve the issue

Upvotes: 27

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