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

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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

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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

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Do  npm install   to install Grunt locally in   node modules  and everything else specified in the package json file

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You can simply run this command   npm install grunt --save-dev

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Just npm install to install node modules

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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

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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

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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

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