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

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.