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How to use HUGO and make quick Websites

How to use HUGO and make quick Websites

September 6, 2024

To use HUGO, you just need 2 things: GO language and HUGO.

Why HUGO? It builds sites veeeery fast

Setup GO & HUGO - x86 📌

Example with: https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo/releases/tag/v0.108.0

sudo apt update -y
sudo apt install wget

#install go
# wget https://go.dev/dl/go1.21.1.linux-armv6l.tar.gz
# sudo tar -C /usr/local -xvzf go1.21.1.linux-armv6l.tar.gz
# export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/go/bin
# source ~/.bashrc
# go version

#install hugo: example v0.108 and tar.gz
# wget https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo/releases/download/v0.108.0/hugo_extended_0.108.0_linux-amd64.tar.gz \
# && tar -xvzf hugo_0.108.0_linux-arm.tar.gz \
# && sudo mv hugo /usr/local/bin/ \
# && rm hugo_0.108.0_linux-amd64.tar.gz \
# && hugo version

#https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo/releases/download/v0.108.0/hugo_0.108.0_linux-amd64.deb
go version && \
wget https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo/releases/download/v0.108.0/hugo_0.108.0_linux-amd64.deb -O hugo_specific_version.deb && \
sudo dpkg -i hugo_specific_version.deb && \
rm hugo_specific_version.deb

# wget https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo/releases/download/v0.117.0/hugo_0.117.0_linux-amd64.deb -O hugo_specific_version.deb && \
# sudo dpkg -i hugo_specific_version.deb && \
# rm hugo_specific_version.deb && \
# source ~/.bashrc

Now you can spin a server and make HUGO Remote Development in it.

But…you can also use ARM SBCs with HUGO

Setup GO & HUGO - ARM64 📌
ssh jalcocert@192.168.0.155
ssh reisipi@192.168.0.117
sudo apt update -y && \
sudo apt install wget -y && \
wget https://go.dev/dl/go1.22.5.linux-arm64.tar.gz && \
sudo tar -C /usr/local -xzf go1.22.5.linux-arm64.tar.gz && \
echo "export PATH=\$PATH:/usr/local/go/bin" >> ~/.bashrc && \
source ~/.bashrc && \
go version && \
wget https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo/releases/download/v0.117.0/hugo_extended_0.117.0_linux-arm64.deb -O hugo_latestarm.deb && \
sudo dpkg -i hugo_latestarm.deb && \
hugo version && \
rm go1.22.5.linux-arm64.tar.gz && \
rm hugo_latestarm.deb

Or if you want, step by step:

sudo apt update -y
sudo apt install wget

#install go
wget https://go.dev/dl/go1.22.5.linux-arm64.tar.gz
sudo tar -C /usr/local -xzf go1.22.5.linux-arm64.tar.gz
export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/go/bin
source ~/.bashrc
go version

#install hugo: example v0.108
# wget https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo/releases/tag/v0.108.0/hugo_extended_0.108.0_linux-amd64.deb -O hugo_latest.deb
# wget https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo/releases/download/v0.117.0/hugo_extended_0.117.0_linux-arm64.deb -O hugo_latestarm.deb

sudo dpkg -i hugo_latest.deb
hugo version 
#sudo dpkg -r hugo

But this thing also works in older SBC, like the RPi4

Setup GO & HUGO - ARM32 📌
ssh reisipi@192.168.0.232
sudo apt update -y
sudo apt install wget

#install go
wget https://go.dev/dl/go1.21.1.linux-armv6l.tar.gz
sudo tar -C /usr/local -xvzf go1.21.1.linux-armv6l.tar.gz
export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/go/bin
source ~/.bashrc
go version

#install hugo: example v0.108
wget https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo/releases/download/v0.108.0/hugo_0.108.0_linux-arm.tar.gz \
&& tar -xvzf hugo_0.108.0_linux-arm.tar.gz \
&& sudo mv hugo /usr/local/bin/ \
&& rm hugo_0.108.0_linux-arm.tar.gz \
&& hugo version

If you want to be sure that HUGO works…

  1. See that you got the desired version installed
go version
hugo version
  1. Clone this Website Repository and try to run it locally:
git clone https://github.com/JAlcocerT/JAlcocerT && cd ./JAlcocerT

#git clone https://github.com/JAlcocerT/JAlcocerT.git && cd ./JAlcocerT
#git checkout 0026818a2661094d37c958a75535fe2e0daf938c #https://github.com/JAlcocerT/JAlcocerT/commit/0026818a2661094d37c958a75535fe2e0daf938c
#hugo server
#hugo server --bind="0.0.0.0" --baseURL="http://192.168.0.155" --port=1313
#hugo server --bind="0.0.0.0" --baseURL="http://100.104.143.77" --port=1319

ifconfig
#ifconfig eth0 | grep -A 10 "<global>" #check mac, and transfered packages
ifconfig eth0 | grep "inet " | awk '{ print $2 }' #if ETH Connected - SEE THE LOCAL IP
#ifconfig tailscale0 | grep "inet " | awk '{ print $2 }' #for Tailscale

Talking from the experience.

HUGO is great to have a quick blog going for free. Thats what ive done with my Linux Repo

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You can use HUGO with Github Pages + GH Actions. Look at those ~5s build times ~30/40s e2e!

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