Installing Hugo on Ubuntu

The following is the process I used to install Hugo on POP_OS! 19.04.

$ symbol in the steps below represent the linuxbrew or current directory within linuxbrew. In my case that’s located at…
joe@pop-os:/home/linuxbrew/$

Install Git

$ sudo apt install git

Install Homebrew for Linux

$ cd /home

$ sh -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Linuxbrew/install/master/install.sh)"

Hugo

$ cd linuxbrew/

$ sudo apt install linuxbrew-wrapper

$ brew install hugo

$ sudo apt install hugo

$ hugo version

$ hugo new site quickstart

$ cd quickstart/themes/

Choose and download a theme to the themes folder within quickstart. In my case i”m going to use the Ananke Gohugo Theme.

$ git clone https://github.com/budparr/gohugo-theme-ananke.git

$ cd ..

$ git init

Edit your config.toml file and add the folder name to the theme file.

baseURL = "http://example.org/"
languageCode = "en-us"
title = "My New Hugo Site"
theme = "gohugo-theme-ananke"

Start Hugo

$ hugo server -D

If everything worked as expected your hugo site should be live at http://localhost:1313/

If you’re curious the test site I published to netlify is at https://epic-mayer-0e6e10.netlify.com/