https://ndonaghy.com/tags/hugo/ Recent content in Hugo on Niall Donaghy Hugo en-gb Sun, 05 Apr 2026 00:23:04 +0100 https://ndonaghy.com/posts/hugo/ Sun, 05 Apr 2026 00:23:04 +0100 https://ndonaghy.com/posts/hugo/ <h1 id="hugo-getting-started">Hugo: getting started</h1> <h2 id="install">Install</h2> <p>There are multiple ways to obtain and install - eg: distro package manager, github binary, compile source. Check the docs and choose what works best for you.</p> <p>I am going with a recent binary:</p> <div class="highlight"><pre tabindex="0" style="color:#f8f8f2;background-color:#272822;-moz-tab-size:4;-o-tab-size:4;tab-size:4;-webkit-text-size-adjust:none;"><code class="language-bash" data-lang="bash"><span style="display:flex;"><span>cd /tmp </span></span><span style="display:flex;"><span>wget https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo/releases/download/v0.159.2/hugo_extended_0.159.2_linux-amd64.tar.gz </span></span><span style="display:flex;"><span>tar -xzf hugo_extended_0.159.2_linux-amd64.tar.gz </span></span><span style="display:flex;"><span>sudo mv hugo /usr/local/bin/ </span></span><span style="display:flex;"><span>hugo version </span></span></code></pre></div><h2 id="create-site">Create site</h2> <p>Here I am working in my git repo which has an existing README.md file, so use &ndash;force to create despite the directory not being empty:</p>