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Om3ga
Om3ga

Reputation: 32843

Having issues with grunt installation

I followed the documentation on grunt site. After executing sudo npm install -g grunt-cli I got this output

    npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/grunt-cli
    npm http 304 https://registry.npmjs.org/grunt-cli
    npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/findup-sync
    npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/nopt
    npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/resolve
    npm http 304 https://registry.npmjs.org/resolve
    npm http 304 https://registry.npmjs.org/findup-sync
    npm http 304 https://registry.npmjs.org/nopt
    npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/abbrev
    npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/glob
    npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/lodash
    npm http 304 https://registry.npmjs.org/abbrev
    npm http 304 https://registry.npmjs.org/glob
    npm http 304 https://registry.npmjs.org/lodash
    npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/graceful-fs
    npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/inherits
    npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/minimatch
    npm http 304 https://registry.npmjs.org/minimatch
    npm http 304 https://registry.npmjs.org/inherits
    npm http 304 https://registry.npmjs.org/graceful-fs
    npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/lru-cache
    npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/sigmund
    npm http 304 https://registry.npmjs.org/sigmund
    npm http 304 https://registry.npmjs.org/lru-cache
    npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/sigmund/-/sigmund-1.0.0.tgz
    npm http 200 https://registry.npmjs.org/sigmund/-/sigmund-1.0.0.tgz
    /usr/local/bin/grunt -> /usr/local/lib/node_modules/grunt-cli/bin/grunt
    [email protected] /usr/local/lib/node_modules/grunt-cli
    ├── [email protected]
    ├── [email protected] ([email protected])
    └── [email protected] ([email protected], [email protected])

After this, when I do grunt I get this message

    grunt-cli: The grunt command line interface. (v0.1.11)

    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

After this I also followed this link to solve my problem but I still am getting the same error above.

UPDATE

Gruntfile.js

    module.exports = function () {
        grunt.initConfig({
            min: {
                dist: {
                    src: 'file-one.js',
                    dest: 'file-one.min.js'
                }
            }
        });
    }

package.json file

    {
      "name": "grunt",
      "version": "0.1.0",
      "devDependencies": {
        "grunt": "~0.1.11",
        "grunt-contrib-jshint": "~0.6.3",
        "grunt-contrib-nodeunit": "~0.2.0",
        "grunt-contrib-uglify": "~0.2.2"
      }
    }

Upvotes: 1

Views: 4716

Answers (2)

vimx
vimx

Reputation: 138

npm update work for me. Grunt have to be updated.

Upvotes: 0

loganfsmyth
loganfsmyth

Reputation: 161457

You have installed grunt-cli as a global package, but you also need to install grunt locally. The grunt-cli package installs a global command line tool, but that command line tool just tries to load the locally install grunt module. This is done in order to allow people to have multiple versions of grunt for different projects, you need to have grunt itself installed as a local package in the project you are working on.

From the page you linked to:

Note that installing grunt-cli does not install the Grunt task runner! The job of the Grunt CLI is simple: run the version of Grunt which has been installed next to a Gruntfile. This allows multiple versions of Grunt to be installed on the same machine simultaneously.

So you need to have grunt as a local dependency in your package.json file, just like any other module, wheres you would not list grunt-cli in there.

Upvotes: 7

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