No local gulp install found even after installing npm install -g gulp

Question

I tried to install gulp by

npm install -g gulp

The output seems to be something like this. (i have skipped some logs)

npm http 304 https://registry.npmjs.org/string_decoder
npm http 304 https://registry.npmjs.org/lodash._htmlescapes
/usr/bin/gulp -> /usr/lib/node_modules/gulp/bin/gulp.js
gulp@3.6.2 /usr/lib/node_modules/gulp
├── tildify@0.2.0
├── pretty-hrtime@0.2.1
├── deprecated@0.0.1
├── archy@0.0.2
├── semver@2.2.1
├── chalk@0.4.0 (has-color@0.1.7, ansi-styles@1.0.0, strip-ansi@0.1.1)
├── orchestrator@0.3.3 (sequencify@0.0.7)
├── liftoff@0.9.8 (extend@1.2.1, minimist@0.0.8, resolve@0.6.3, findup-sync@0.1.3)
├── vinyl-fs@0.1.4 (graceful-fs@2.0.3, map-stream@0.1.0, mkdirp@0.3.5, vinyl@0.2.3, glob-stream@3.1.9, glob-watcher@0.0.6)
└── gulp-util@2.2.14 (lodash._reinterpolate@2.4.1, dateformat@1.0.7-1.2.3, minimist@0.0.8, vinyl@0.2.3, multipipe@0.0.2, through2@0.4.1, lodash.template@2.4.1)

In the above script i can see a line /usr/bin/gulp -> /usr/lib/node_modules/gulp/bin/gulp.js which i guess is making a simulink in bin folder. So i should be getting gulp globally but i get the this error.

No local gulp install found in /var/www/ksapp

Any idea why i am getting this error.

Thanks

Answer 1

As pointed out in the doc, you should install it globally (you did that) and add it to your project dev deps (locally):

npm install gulp --save-dev

Answer 2

I faced the same issue. Got it resolved by creating a link

npm link gulp

Answer 3

Check /home/username/.npm directory: maybe groups/owner of files is root. Change to username:

chown -R username.username /home/username/.npm

Answer 4

I've recently run into the "Local gulp not found" error message. I was able to work past it by creating a symlink from the global node_modules directory to the local project directory where my gulpfile.js is located.