How to fix the "This project is configured to use Yarn" error on pnpm install

Last updated on October 08, 2023
How to fix the "This project is configured to use Yarn" error on pnpm install

The "This project is configured to use Yarn" error happens in pnpm install when you have a field in your package.json file that specifies Yarn as the package manager.

The package.json field may have come about when you ran a yarn set version ... command, for example, yarn set version stable to set up Yarn Berry, or yarn set version berry to migrate from Yarn v1 to Yarn Berry.

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Fix "This project is configured to use Yarn" error

To fix the this pnpm install usage error, simply remove the "packageManager" field from package.json:

Once you do that, pnpm install will run properly.

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