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

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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