@scottalanmiller said in Installing Hugo Static Website Generator on Linux:

@stacksofplates said in Installing Hugo Static Website Generator on Linux:

@scottalanmiller said in Installing Hugo Static Website Generator on Linux:

However, they don't have any standard Linux install documentation on their website and only show using Homebrew, a MacOS package that essentially no one on Linux uses. Very odd.

I just looked. I'm not sure what you're talking about. The page clearly shows snaps, dnf, apt, pacman, eopgk, and pkg_add for OpenBSD.

https://gohugo.io/getting-started/installing

Completely different than what I got from the same link this morning. I went to that page, clicked on Linux, and they only showed Brewlinux, which isn't even the current name of the system.

Way back machine shows it's been there since at least the 13th.

https://web.archive.org/web/20191113183617/https://gohugo.io/getting-started/installing/

@scottalanmiller said in Installing Hugo Static Website Generator on Linux:

However, they don't have any standard Linux install documentation on their website and only show using Homebrew, a MacOS package that essentially no one on Linux uses. Very odd.

I just looked. I'm not sure what you're talking about. The page clearly shows snaps, dnf, apt, pacman, eopgk, and pkg_add for OpenBSD.

https://gohugo.io/getting-started/installing

They probably don't have any "official" Linux documentation because it's just a binary you download from their releases page on GitHub.

I just throw it in ~/bin and it works.

That's not really a cure, it just turns it off. The better thing to do is boot into recovery mode by adding rd.break at the end of that same line in the bootloader. Then remount the sysroot directory with mount –o remount,rw /sysroot. Enter /sysroot with chroot /sysroot and completely disable SELinux by setting SELINUX=permissive in /etc/selinux/config. Then creating the autorelabel file in / with touch /.autorelabel. Then exit the chroot. Reboot and let the system and let SELinux relabel everything. Check your logs to make sure there aren't any issues and then finally re-enable SELinux by setting SELINUX=enforcing in /etc/selinux/config. Then reboot again.

Edit: forgot the chroot.

@Obsolesce said in Building A Hugo Site From a Theme:

@black3dynamite said in Building A Hugo Site From a Theme:

@stacksofplates said in Building A Hugo Site From a Theme:

@Obsolesce said in Building A Hugo Site From a Theme:

Yeah, that's not working (now it is). Here is what I did from fresh Ubuntu install.

1. sudo apt update
2. sudo apt upgrade
3. sudo apt install hugo
4. hugo version to verify installation
5. hugo new site testsite.com
6. Downloaded https://github.com/themefisher/meghna-hugo/archive/master.zip
7. Extracted it into the /home/testsite.com/themes directory
8. Renamed folder in themes directory to meghna-hugo.
9. Copied the exampleSite folder to site root, replacing/merging/overwriting everything when asked.
10. Ran hugo serve -D from the /home/testsite.com directory.

Result: Blank white page.

UPDATE (added steps 7,8,9)
Okay I missed your step 5, and did that, after I found the directory you were referring to:

ERRORS:

1. Says my hugo version is too old for the theme. It looks like the default repo uses version 0.40.x, and the theme requires v0.55.x. So I found the place in the theme config to change minimal version, and continued to get a wall of errors.

--

2. Installed latest version via built-in software install GUI

3. Retried my steps starting at step 4.

4. NOW I get a working site.

I don't ever install from the repos. It's a single binary so I grab the latest release from their releases page and put it in ~/bin. In my experience the themes are more likely to work with the newer version and not an older one. But 40 is exceptionally old, around a year and a half. That's why I usually just grab from releases every so often.

Another resacón to avoid LTS releases unless you are using the latest release from there website.

Ya I was just using the install guide from the Hugo website... I think about how the Ubuntu repo was such shit being so behind.

But then again I suppose that's why not to install the LTS release. I used Hyper-V's built-in wizard and blindly selected Ubuntu. But, it does offer 19.04, however, even 19.04 gives an extremely old version of Hugo (0.52-1 LOL!)

I would have been much better off had I used Windows and Chocolatey, as that uses the current version (0.59).

Doing things with Go has really made me lazy. Having a single binary is so nice. If I need separate dependencies for applications it kind of annoys me now.

@Obsolesce said in Building A Hugo Site From a Theme:

Yeah, that's not working (now it is). Here is what I did from fresh Ubuntu install.

1. sudo apt update
2. sudo apt upgrade
3. sudo apt install hugo
4. hugo version to verify installation
5. hugo new site testsite.com
6. Downloaded https://github.com/themefisher/meghna-hugo/archive/master.zip
7. Extracted it into the /home/testsite.com/themes directory
8. Renamed folder in themes directory to meghna-hugo.
9. Copied the exampleSite folder to site root, replacing/merging/overwriting everything when asked.
10. Ran hugo serve -D from the /home/testsite.com directory.

Result: Blank white page.

UPDATE (added steps 7,8,9)
Okay I missed your step 5, and did that, after I found the directory you were referring to:

ERRORS:

1. Says my hugo version is too old for the theme. It looks like the default repo uses version 0.40.x, and the theme requires v0.55.x. So I found the place in the theme config to change minimal version, and continued to get a wall of errors.

--

2. Installed latest version via built-in software install GUI

3. Retried my steps starting at step 4.

4. NOW I get a working site.

I don't ever install from the repos. It's a single binary so I grab the latest release from their releases page and put it in ~/bin. In my experience the themes are more likely to work with the newer version and not an older one. But 40 is exceptionally old, around a year and a half. That's why I usually just grab from releases every so often.

https://mangolassi.it/topic/20702/building-a-hugo-site-from-a-theme

1. First choose a theme from here: https://themes.gohugo.io/
   For this example I'm just going to use this theme: https://themes.gohugo.io/meghna-hugo/#installation

2. Click download to go to their GitHub.

3. Make a themes directory

4. Clone the repo into your themes directory

5. Copy the contents of the exampleSite directory in the theme 3 levels up in your top level site directory.

6. Run hugo serve -D

7. Modify the content and watch it change live.

Here's what you get at localhost:1313

Idk I didn't mind the windows 8 interface because it felt like GNOME 3 to me.

I have to wonder if Microsoft would have got the same push back if the internet was as prevelant back when they first introduced the start menu.

@black3dynamite said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Geeze that took long enough.