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2025-April-10 Hugo v0.146.0 released with a ⚠️️NEW Hugo templating system. Infinite Ink has not been updated to reflect the new templating system, but a lot of the old Hugo templates — at least for now — still work. For details, see gohugo.io/templates/new-templatesystem-overview.
2022-February-13 Published this evolving[1] article.
Prerequisites
This article assumes…
you know how to use the command line
and you want to install the extended version of the Hugo static site generator.
ℹ | Extended Hugo is needed if…
Infinite Ink’s Hugo Tutorial and many Hugo themes require extended Hugo. |
1. Find out your path
The hugo executable is one[2]
file
and
can be put anywhere on your path.
To find out your path,
run one of the following commands
at a command-line prompt.
In a Unix-like shell, including Git Bash, run:
echo $PATH
In PowerShell, run either of the following:
$env:path$env:path -split ";"
set path
💡 | If you use a package manager to install
hugo or hugo.exe, you will not need to deal with your path
because the package manager will take care of that. |
2. Install extended hugo
You can install extended Hugo with a package manager, with Eget, or manually.
‼ | If you are not a superuser, using a package manager is the way to go IMHO. |
Method 1: Install manually
Go to github.com/gohugoio/hugo/releases and download the newest:
hugo_version_checksums.txt, for example:hugo_0.127.0_checksums.txt
hugo_extended_version_platform.extension, for example one of these:hugo_extended_0.127.0_darwin-universal.tar.gzhugo_extended_0.127.0_Linux-64bit.deb[4]hugo_extended_0.127.0_Linux-64bit.tar.gzhugo_extended_0.127.0_linux-amd64.debhugo_extended_0.127.0_linux-amd64.tar.gzhugo_extended_0.127.0_linux-arm64.debhugo_extended_0.127.0_linux-arm64.tar.gzhugo_extended_0.127.0_windows-amd64.zip
Then,
check the checksum of
the
hugo package
you
downloaded,
unpackage it,[4][5]
and put
the
hugo or hugo.exe
executable
somewhere on your path (discussed
in section 1
above).
💡 |
Note that
putting
a file in
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Method 2: Install with Eget
Eget is a command-line tool written in Go that downloads prebuilt binaries[6] from GitHub. For details about installing Hugo with Eget, see Infinite Ink’s Eget: Easily Get & Install Some Apps (featuring installing the latest Hugo).
Method 3: Install with a package manager
The guide at gohugo.io/installation/ describes how to use a lot of Linux, Mac, and Windows package managers.
My Windows choice: Scoop
On Windows I use this sequence of commands to install extended Hugo:
And this sequence of commands to update extended Hugo:
scoop update scoop update hugo-extended
Details are in Infinite Ink’s Scoop: A Windows Package Manager (featuring Hugo, Figlet, and Ruby).
To find out what
version of Hugo
is currently installed by Scoop, see
github.com/ScoopInstaller/Main/blob/master/bucket/hugo-extended.json
or
this Repology badge:
My Linux choices
To learn about Linux package management in general, see Infinite Ink’s Linux Package Management.
Snap Store Desktop App
On Linux with a desktop environment, I use the Snap Store Desktop App because…
it has a graphical user interface,
it usually installs a recent version of Hugo, and
it’s easy to specify an extended channel because there is a drop-down menu in the upper right of the app window labeled
Sourcethat lets you chooseextended/stableor, if available,extended/edge.
Details about what Hugo version the Snap Store is currently installing are at snapcraft.io/hugo and in the following embedded card.
ℹ | Starting 2021-October-25, the Hugo team has the option to have the Snap Store install Hugo with classic (rather than strict) confinement. Details about this are in the discussion about Request for classic confinement for hugo snap on forum.snapcraft.io. To find out the current confinement level, see github.com/gohugoio/hugo/blob/master/snap/snapcraft.yaml. |
Homebrew on Linux
If you’ve installed Homebrew on Linux, the following command installs extended Hugo.
brew install hugo
Installation tips
Using a software package manager makes it easy to install, update, or uninstall extended Hugo.
People often post announcements about Hugo package updates in discourse.gohugo.io/c/announcements.
There are some useful scripts for installing or updating
hugoon Unix-like systems in discourse.gohugo.io’s thread titled Script to install latest hugo release on macos and ubuntu.If you are using a Debian-based system, you can download the appropriate
.debfrom github.com/gohugoio/hugo/releases and install it with, for example,sudo dpkg --install ./hugo_extended_0.127.0_Linux-64bit.deb[4]The extended and unextended binaries have the same name (
hugoon Unix-like systems andhugo.exeon Windows).
3. Check your hugo with hugo version, hugo env, and hugo env -v
After you install hugo,
check that it’s
on your path
and is an
extended version, by running
this
at a command-line prompt:
You should see something like this:
hugo v0.127.0-74e0f3bd63c51f3c7a0f07a7c779eec9e922957e+extended windows/amd64 BuildDate=2024-06-05T10:27:59Z VendorInfo=gohugoio
👆
To view more information about your hugo,
run:
Here is an example of the output of this command:
hugo v0.112.7-ea3c95a7b0f2140c248c1f40246a2e7acd2ada62+extended windows/amd64 BuildDate=2023-06-02T07:07:11Z VendorInfo=gohugoio GOOS="windows" GOARCH="amd64" GOVERSION="go1.20.1" github.com/sass/libsass="3.6.5" github.com/webmproject/libwebp="v1.2.4"
To view a lot more information about your hugo,
run either of these:
hugo env -v hugo env --verbose
Here is an example of the output of these equivalent commands:
WARN deprecated: --verbose was deprecated in Hugo v0.114.0 and will be removed in a future release. use --logLevel info hugo v0.122.0-b9a03bd59d5f71a529acb3e33f995e0ef332b3aa+extended windows/amd64 BuildDate=2024-01-26T15:54:24Z VendorInfo=gohugoio GOOS="windows" GOARCH="amd64" GOVERSION="go1.21.6" cloud.google.com/go/compute/metadata="v0.2.3" cloud.google.com/go/iam="v1.1.5" cloud.google.com/go/storage="v1.35.1" cloud.google.com/go="v0.110.10" github.com/Azure/azure-sdk-for-go/sdk/azcore="v1.7.0" github.com/Azure/azure-sdk-for-go/sdk/azidentity="v1.3.0" github.com/Azure/azure-sdk-for-go/sdk/internal="v1.3.0" github.com/Azure/azure-sdk-for-go/sdk/storage/azblob="v1.1.0" github.com/Azure/go-autorest/autorest/to="v0.4.0" github.com/AzureAD/microsoft-authentication-library-for-go="v1.0.0" github.com/BurntSushi/locker="v0.0.0-20171006230638-a6e239ea1c69" github.com/PuerkitoBio/purell="v1.1.1" github.com/PuerkitoBio/urlesc="v0.0.0-20170810143723-de5bf2ad4578" github.com/alecthomas/chroma/v2="v2.12.0" github.com/armon/go-radix="v1.0.0" github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2/aws/protocol/eventstream="v1.4.11" github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2/config="v1.18.32" github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2/credentials="v1.13.31" github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2/feature/ec2/imds="v1.13.7" github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2/feature/s3/manager="v1.11.76" github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2/internal/configsources="v1.1.37" github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2/internal/endpoints/v2="v2.4.31" github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2/internal/ini="v1.3.38" github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2/internal/v4a="v1.1.0" github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2/service/internal/accept-encoding="v1.9.12" github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2/service/internal/checksum="v1.1.32" github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2/service/internal/presigned-url="v1.9.31" github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2/service/internal/s3shared="v1.15.0" github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2/service/s3="v1.38.1" github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2/service/sso="v1.13.1" github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2/service/ssooidc="v1.15.1" github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2/service/sts="v1.21.1" github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2="v1.20.0" github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go="v1.48.6" github.com/aws/smithy-go="v1.14.0" github.com/bep/clocks="v0.5.0" github.com/bep/debounce="v1.2.0" github.com/bep/gitmap="v1.1.2" github.com/bep/goat="v0.5.0" github.com/bep/godartsass/v2="v2.0.0" github.com/bep/godartsass="v1.2.0" github.com/bep/golibsass="v1.1.1" github.com/bep/gowebp="v0.3.0" github.com/bep/lazycache="v0.2.0" github.com/bep/logg="v0.4.0" github.com/bep/mclib="v1.20400.20402" github.com/bep/overlayfs="v0.6.0" github.com/bep/simplecobra="v0.4.0" github.com/bep/tmc="v0.5.1" github.com/clbanning/mxj/v2="v2.7.0" github.com/cli/safeexec="v1.0.1" github.com/cpuguy83/go-md2man/v2="v2.0.3" github.com/disintegration/gift="v1.2.1" github.com/dlclark/regexp2="v1.10.0" github.com/dustin/go-humanize="v1.0.1" github.com/evanw/esbuild="v0.19.12" github.com/fatih/color="v1.16.0" github.com/frankban/quicktest="v1.14.6" github.com/fsnotify/fsnotify="v1.7.0" github.com/getkin/kin-openapi="v0.122.0" github.com/ghodss/yaml="v1.0.0" github.com/go-openapi/jsonpointer="v0.19.6" github.com/go-openapi/swag="v0.22.4" github.com/gobuffalo/flect="v1.0.2" github.com/gobwas/glob="v0.2.3" github.com/gohugoio/go-i18n/v2="v2.1.3-0.20230805085216-e63c13218d0e" github.com/gohugoio/hugo-goldmark-extensions/passthrough="v0.1.0" github.com/gohugoio/locales="v0.14.0" github.com/gohugoio/localescompressed="v1.0.1" github.com/golang-jwt/jwt/v4="v4.5.0" github.com/golang/groupcache="v0.0.0-20210331224755-41bb18bfe9da" github.com/golang/protobuf="v1.5.3" github.com/google/go-cmp="v0.6.0" github.com/google/s2a-go="v0.1.7" github.com/google/uuid="v1.4.0" github.com/google/wire="v0.5.0" github.com/googleapis/enterprise-certificate-proxy="v0.3.2" github.com/googleapis/gax-go/v2="v2.12.0" github.com/gorilla/websocket="v1.5.1" github.com/hairyhenderson/go-codeowners="v0.4.0" github.com/hashicorp/golang-lru/v2="v2.0.1" github.com/inconshreveable/mousetrap="v1.1.0" github.com/invopop/yaml="v0.2.0" github.com/jdkato/prose="v1.2.1" github.com/jmespath/go-jmespath="v0.4.0" github.com/josharian/intern="v1.0.0" github.com/kr/pretty="v0.3.1" github.com/kr/text="v0.2.0" github.com/kylelemons/godebug="v1.1.0" github.com/kyokomi/emoji/v2="v2.2.12" github.com/mailru/easyjson="v0.7.7" github.com/marekm4/color-extractor="v1.2.1" github.com/mattn/go-colorable="v0.1.13" github.com/mattn/go-isatty="v0.0.20" github.com/mattn/go-runewidth="v0.0.9" github.com/mitchellh/hashstructure="v1.1.0" github.com/mitchellh/mapstructure="v1.5.0" github.com/mohae/deepcopy="v0.0.0-20170929034955-c48cc78d4826" github.com/muesli/smartcrop="v0.3.0" github.com/niklasfasching/go-org="v1.7.0" github.com/olekukonko/tablewriter="v0.0.5" github.com/pelletier/go-toml/v2="v2.1.1" github.com/perimeterx/marshmallow="v1.1.5" github.com/pkg/browser="v0.0.0-20210911075715-681adbf594b8" github.com/pkg/errors="v0.9.1" github.com/rogpeppe/go-internal="v1.12.0" github.com/russross/blackfriday/v2="v2.1.0" github.com/rwcarlsen/goexif="v0.0.0-20190401172101-9e8deecbddbd" github.com/sanity-io/litter="v1.5.5" github.com/sass/libsass="3.6.5" github.com/spf13/afero="v1.11.0" github.com/spf13/cast="v1.6.0" github.com/spf13/cobra="v1.8.0" github.com/spf13/fsync="v0.9.0" github.com/spf13/pflag="v1.0.5" github.com/tdewolff/minify/v2="v2.20.13" github.com/tdewolff/parse/v2="v2.7.8" github.com/webmproject/libwebp="v1.3.2" github.com/yuin/goldmark-emoji="v1.0.2" github.com/yuin/goldmark="v1.6.0" go.opencensus.io="v0.24.0" go.uber.org/atomic="v1.11.0" go.uber.org/automaxprocs="v1.5.3" gocloud.dev="v0.34.0" golang.org/x/crypto="v0.18.0" golang.org/x/exp="v0.0.0-20221031165847-c99f073a8326" golang.org/x/image="v0.14.0" golang.org/x/mod="v0.14.0" golang.org/x/net="v0.20.0" golang.org/x/oauth2="v0.15.0" golang.org/x/sync="v0.6.0" golang.org/x/sys="v0.16.0" golang.org/x/text="v0.14.0" golang.org/x/time="v0.5.0" golang.org/x/tools="v0.17.0" golang.org/x/xerrors="v0.0.0-20220907171357-04be3eba64a2" google.golang.org/api="v0.152.0" google.golang.org/genproto/googleapis/api="v0.0.0-20231106174013-bbf56f31fb17" google.golang.org/genproto/googleapis/rpc="v0.0.0-20231120223509-83a465c0220f" google.golang.org/genproto="v0.0.0-20231106174013-bbf56f31fb17" google.golang.org/grpc="v1.59.0" google.golang.org/protobuf="v1.31.0" gopkg.in/yaml.v2="v2.4.0" gopkg.in/yaml.v3="v3.0.1" software.sslmate.com/src/go-pkcs12="v0.2.0"
4. Locate hugo
To
find out
which
directory the hugo executable
is in,
run
one of the following shell commands.
In a Unix-like shell, run:
which hugo
In PowerShell, run:
gcm hugo(or equivalentlyGet-Command hugo)
In cmd.exe or Git Bash, run:
where hugo
Possible next steps
After you’ve installed extended Hugo, you might want to follow the steps in one or both of these Infinite Ink articles:
Repology
Repology.org “monitors a huge number of package repositories and other sources comparing package versions across them and gathering other information.” Some details about Hugo are on repology.org/project/hugo-sitegen/history and in this badge:
As you can see in the above Repology badge,
most
package managers
do not install
the newest version of Hugo.
This is
the main reason
I wrote this article.
2. If you use Hugo modules, you need to install
go and git (or another VCS). If you use a non-built-in renderer, such as asciidoctor or pandoc, you need to install that renderer and edit Hugo’s security configuration.3. cmd.exe is also known as CMD and is pronounced “cee em dee.” It is sometimes referred to as “Command Prompt” (which is a completely ambiguous name IMHO). Details are at Wikipedia’s cmd.exe.
4. On a Debian-based system, the command
sudo dpkg --install ./hugo_extended_0.127.0_Linux-64bit.deb will work if you invoke it from the directory that the .deb is in. Since hugo has no dependencies, there should be no issues installing it with dpkg --install. (This is how I install hugo on WSL, which is also known as “Windows’ Subsystem for Linux” and “Bash on Ubuntu on Windows.”)5. On most GUI systems, double clicking a file with a
.gz or .zip extension will launch an unzip app. For example, some Linux distributions launch the ark archiving tool.6. “Binaries” are also known as “executables.” Details are at wikipedia.org/wiki/Executable.
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