Install Hugo on Ubuntu to generate static websites

Whilst there is a .DEB installer to download from the GoHugo sites I get all matter of warnings that the package is of bad quality and I am not comfortable to run these kinds of installers.

I rather install from sources in this case which is very straight forward since the main dependencies (largely GO) are in the Ubuntu main repositories.

Install dependencies

sudo apt-get install golang git mercurial python-pygments

Create environment variables

vim ~/.bashrc
# add the following 3 lines
export GOROOT=/usr/lib/go
export GOPATH=$HOME/go
export PATH=$PATH:$GOROOT/bin:$GOPATH/bin

Update Bash Environment Variables without logging out.

source ~/.bashrc

Install Hugo

go get -u -v github.com/spf13/hugo

Start using Hugo

# create new site
hugo new sitename /path/to/sitename
# change directory to site
cd /path/to/sitename
# create content page
hugo new about.md
# edit content page
vim content/about.md

• Configuration
• Development
• Ubuntu

sudo apt-get install golang git mercurial python-pygments

vim ~/.bashrc
# add the following 3 lines
export GOROOT=/usr/lib/go
export GOPATH=$HOME/go
export PATH=$PATH:$GOROOT/bin:$GOPATH/bin