Node package Grunt installed but not available

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I m trying to build a github jquery-ui library using grunt  but after running npm install I still can t run the command according to the readme file   It just gives No command  grunt  found   james ubuntu   Documents projects ad2 lib jquery-ui  grunt build No command  grunt  found  did you mean   Command  grun  from package  grun   universe  grunt  command not found james ubuntu   Documents projects ad2 lib jquery-ui  npm ls jquery-ui 1 9 0pre  home james Documents projects ad2 lib jquery-ui  -- grunt 0 3 9      -- async 0 1 18      -- colors 0 6 0-1      -- connect 1 8 7         -- formidable 1 0 9         -- mime 1 2 5         -- qs 0 5 0      -- dateformat 1 0 2-1 2 3      -- glob-whatev 0 1 6         -- minimatch 0 2 4           -- lru-cache 1 0 6      -- gzip-js 0 3 1         -- crc32 0 2 2         -- deflate-js 0 2 2      -- hooker 0 2 3      -- jshint 0 5 9         -- argsparser 0 0 6         -- minimatch 0 2 4           -- lru-cache 1 0 6      -- nodeunit 0 6 4         -- tap-assert 0 0 10         -- tap-producer 0 0 1           -- inherits 1 0 0           -- tap-results 0 0 2           -- yamlish 0 0 5      -- nopt 1 0 10         -- abbrev 1 0 3      -- prompt 0 1 12         -- pkginfo 0 2 3         -- winston 0 5 11           -- eyes 0 1 7           -- loggly 0 3 11              -- timespan 2 2 0           -- stack-trace 0 0 6      -- semver 1 0 13      -- temporary 0 0 2         -- package 1 0 0      -- uglify-js 1 0 7      -- underscore 1 2 4      -- underscore string 2 1 1   -- grunt-compare-size 0 1 4   -- grunt-css 0 2 0      -- csslint 0 9 8      -- sqwish 0 2 0   -- grunt-html 0 1 1   -- request 2 9 153   -- rimraf 2 0 1      -- graceful-fs 1 1 8   -- testswarm 0 2 2     -- request 2 9 202    I m confused  what am I missing please

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If you did have installed Grunt package by running npm install -g grunt and it still say's No command 'grunt' found or grunt: command not found, a quick and dirty way to get this working is linking node binaries to your $PATH manually.

On MacOSX/Linux you can add this line to your ~/.bash_profile or ~/.bashrc file.

PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/Cellar/node/HEAD/bin # Add NPM binaries

You probably should replace /usr/local/Cellar/node/HEAD/bin by the path where your node binaries could be found.

If this is quick and dirty to me, it's because everything should work without doing this, but for an unknown reason, a link seem broken. As nobody on IRC could tell me why this happened, I found my own way to make it (grunt) work.

PS: This should help you make grunt works, this answer is not jquery-ui related.

Update 02/2013 : You should take a look at @tom-p's answer which explains better what is going on. Tom gives us the real solution instead of hacking your bashrc file : both should work, but you should try installing grunt-cli first.

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On Windows 10 Add this to your Path   APPDATA  npm  This references the folder   AppData Roaming npm  Assumes that you have already run npm install -g grunt-cli

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The right way to install grunt is by running this command   npm install grunt -g    Prepend  sudo  to the command above if you get a EACCESS error message   -g will make npm install the package globally  so you will be able to use it whenever you want in your current machine

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In my case  i need modify the file  usr local bin grunt in line 1   don t make this         usr bin env node   remove this line     usr bin env nodejs    and put this line to run with nodejs   Edited   To avoid problems  I created a link with the name of  node  because many other programs still use  node  command    sudo ln -s  usr bin nodejs  usr sbin node

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There is one more way to run grunt on windows  without adding anything globally  This is a case when you don t have to do anything with  PATH   if you have grunt and grunt-cli installed  without -g switch   Either by   npm install grunt-cli npm install grunt 0 4 5   Or by having that in your packages json file like    devDependencies          grunt-cli     1 2 0        grunt     0 4 5     You can call grunt from your local installation by   node node modules grunt-cli bin grunt --version   This is a solution for those who for some reasons don t want to or can t play with PATH  or have something else messing it all the time  for instance on a build agent   Edit  Added versions as the grunt-cli works with grunt   0 3

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On Windows  part of the mystery appears to be where npm installs the Grunt cmd file  While on my Linux box  I just had to run sudo npm install -g grunt-cli  on my Windows 8 work laptop  Grunt was placed in the   npm-global  directory   USER HOME   npm-global and I had to add that to the Path   So on Windows my steps were    npm install -g grunt-cli  figure out where the heck grunt cmd was  I guess for some it is in  USER HOME  App Data Roaming  Added the location to my Path environment variable  Opened a new cmd prompt and the grunt command ran fine

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The command line tools are not included with the latest version of Grunt  0 4 at time of writing  instead you need to install them separately   This is a good idea because it means you can have different versions of Grunt running on different projects but still use the nice concise grunt command to run them   So first install the grunt cli tools globally   npm install -g grunt-cli    or possibly sudo npm install -g grunt-cli     You can establish that s working by typing grunt --version  Now you can install the current version of Grunt local to your project  So from your project s location     npm install grunt --save-dev   The save-dev switch isn t strictly necessary but is a good idea because it will mark grunt in its package json devDependencies section as a development only module

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Sometimes you have to npm install package name -g for it to work

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Hello I had this problem on mac  and what I did was  installed globally and prefix with global path  sudo npm install grunt -g --prefix  usr local   now    which grunt  should out put   usr local bin grunt  Cheers

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On WIN7 I had to manually add the path to the npm folder  which contains the elusive  grunt  file   to the Windows PATH environmental variable  In my case that was C  Users mhaagsma AppData Roaming npm

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Add  usr local share npm bin  to your  PATH

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Other solution is to remove the ubuntu bundler in my case i used   sudo apt-get remove ruby-bundler    That worked for me

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Instala grunt de manera global  sudo npm install -g grunt-cli --unsafe-perm true --allow-root  Try to run grunt   If you have this message    Warning  You need to have Ruby and Sass installed and in your PATH for this task to work  More info  https   github com gruntjs grunt-contrib-sass Used --force  continuing  3 1  Check that you have ruby installed  mac  you should have it   ruby -v

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