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

Question

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

Answer 1

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

Answer 2

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.

Answer 3

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.

Answer 4

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... :(

Answer 5

Do

npm install

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

Answer 6

You can simply run this command:

npm install grunt --save-dev