Building A Hugo Site From a Theme

stacksofplates

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
Click download to go to their GitHub.
Make a themes directory
Clone the repo into your themes directory
Copy the contents of the exampleSite directory in the theme 3 levels up in your top level site directory.
Run hugo serve -D
Modify the content and watch it change live.

Here's what you get at localhost:1313

Obsolesce

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

sudo apt update
sudo apt upgrade
sudo apt install hugo
hugo version to verify installation
hugo new site testsite.com
Downloaded https://github.com/themefisher/meghna-hugo/archive/master.zip
Extracted it into the /home/testsite.com/themes directory
Renamed folder in themes directory to meghna-hugo.
Copied the exampleSite folder to site root, replacing/merging/overwriting everything when asked.
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:

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.

--

Installed latest version via built-in software install GUI
Retried my steps starting at step 4.
NOW I get a working site.

stacksofplates

@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.

sudo apt update

sudo apt upgrade

sudo apt install hugo

hugo version to verify installation

hugo new site testsite.com

Downloaded https://github.com/themefisher/meghna-hugo/archive/master.zip

Extracted it into the /home/testsite.com/themes directory

Renamed folder in themes directory to meghna-hugo.

Copied the exampleSite folder to site root, replacing/merging/overwriting everything when asked.

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:

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.

--

Installed latest version via built-in software install GUI

Retried my steps starting at step 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.

black3dynamite

@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.

sudo apt update

sudo apt upgrade

sudo apt install hugo

hugo version to verify installation

hugo new site testsite.com

Downloaded https://github.com/themefisher/meghna-hugo/archive/master.zip

Extracted it into the /home/testsite.com/themes directory

Renamed folder in themes directory to meghna-hugo.

Copied the exampleSite folder to site root, replacing/merging/overwriting everything when asked.

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:

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.

--

Installed latest version via built-in software install GUI

Retried my steps starting at step 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.

Obsolesce

@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.

sudo apt update

sudo apt upgrade

sudo apt install hugo

hugo version to verify installation

hugo new site testsite.com

Downloaded https://github.com/themefisher/meghna-hugo/archive/master.zip

Extracted it into the /home/testsite.com/themes directory

Renamed folder in themes directory to meghna-hugo.

Copied the exampleSite folder to site root, replacing/merging/overwriting everything when asked.

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:

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.

--

Installed latest version via built-in software install GUI

Retried my steps starting at step 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).

black3dynamite

@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.

sudo apt update

sudo apt upgrade

sudo apt install hugo

hugo version to verify installation

hugo new site testsite.com

Downloaded https://github.com/themefisher/meghna-hugo/archive/master.zip

Extracted it into the /home/testsite.com/themes directory

Renamed folder in themes directory to meghna-hugo.

Copied the exampleSite folder to site root, replacing/merging/overwriting everything when asked.

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:

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.

--

Installed latest version via built-in software install GUI

Retried my steps starting at step 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).

Fedora 30 version of Hugo is 0.54.0-2

Obsolesce

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

@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.

sudo apt update

sudo apt upgrade

sudo apt install hugo

hugo version to verify installation

hugo new site testsite.com

Downloaded https://github.com/themefisher/meghna-hugo/archive/master.zip

Extracted it into the /home/testsite.com/themes directory

Renamed folder in themes directory to meghna-hugo.

Copied the exampleSite folder to site root, replacing/merging/overwriting everything when asked.

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:

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.

--

Installed latest version via built-in software install GUI

Retried my steps starting at step 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).

Fedora 30 version of Hugo is 0.54.0-2

Yeah, woulda had problems with that too since it required 55+. Looks like Chocolatey wins

black3dynamite

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

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

@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.

sudo apt update

sudo apt upgrade

sudo apt install hugo

hugo version to verify installation

hugo new site testsite.com

Downloaded https://github.com/themefisher/meghna-hugo/archive/master.zip

Extracted it into the /home/testsite.com/themes directory

Renamed folder in themes directory to meghna-hugo.

Copied the exampleSite folder to site root, replacing/merging/overwriting everything when asked.

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:

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.

--

Installed latest version via built-in software install GUI

Retried my steps starting at step 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).

Fedora 30 version of Hugo is 0.54.0-2

Yeah, woulda had problems with that too since it required 55+. Looks like Chocolatey wins

A lot of ways to install Hugo.
https://gohugo.io/getting-started/installing/

stacksofplates

@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.

sudo apt update

sudo apt upgrade

sudo apt install hugo

hugo version to verify installation

hugo new site testsite.com

Downloaded https://github.com/themefisher/meghna-hugo/archive/master.zip

Extracted it into the /home/testsite.com/themes directory

Renamed folder in themes directory to meghna-hugo.

Copied the exampleSite folder to site root, replacing/merging/overwriting everything when asked.

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:

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.

--

Installed latest version via built-in software install GUI

Retried my steps starting at step 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.

IRJ

Help @stacksofplates

IRJ

Trying to follow this install

https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo

stacksofplates

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

Help @stacksofplates

Do you need the source or are you just building a site with Hugo?