I keep getting "env: node: No such file or directory" running Grunt on Eclipse as an external tool under MacOS Yosemite

Question

Eclipse (Luna) is clearly launching grunt as the external build tool. However, the Eclipse console keeps showing the "env: node: No such file or directory" message and the grunt tasks do not get to run.

I can successfully run grunt on the command line (outside Eclipse) after moving to the project directory.

The node installer did place it on /usr/local/bin/node but apparently grunt is expecting it somewhere else.

Suggestions?

Answer 1

if you are using Homebrew try

brew unlink node

then

 brew link node

Answer 2

I discovered that grunt is apparently expecting node to live on /usr/bin, yet the installer placed it on /usr/local/bin.

Solution:

sudo ln -s /usr/local/bin/node /usr/bin/node

Hope helps.

Answer 3

The "External Tools Configurations" dialog has a tab for setting the environment the command will run in. In this tab, press "Select..." and select "PATH...". Once it's there you can edit the Value to append ":/usr/local/bin". After this both "node" and "npm" are found and commands work just fine.

Answer 4

sudo chown -R $USER /usr/local
brew unlink node
brew link node