Installing Hugo on Fedora 25

jack@jacktaylor.tech (Jack Taylor) — Mon, 27 Mar 2017 11:08:35 +0900

For those not in the know, Hugo is an amazing tool for building static websites—including the one you’re reading right now. There are no RPMs available, though, so if you’re using Fedora or another RPM-based Linux distro, then you might think you’re out of luck.

In my case, when I saw that there were no Hugo RPMs, I looked to see if there were any unofficial ones. There were, but only for Hugo v0.16, and I needed v0.17 or later for the support for multilingual sites. So no luck there. Then I investigated installing it using snap, but Fedora doesn’t support snaps out of the box, and I’m still slightly skeptical of the idea of using snaps on my system. Then I looked into installing Hugo from source, but it requires Go 1.8+, and Fedora 25 only has 1.7 in the official repositories. It was around this time that I started getting jealous of Ubuntu users’ ability to do a simple sudo apt-get install hugo. Would I have to replace my OS or set up a virtual machine just to make my website?

Thankfully, in the end, the solution was simple.

Hugo on Jack Taylor

Installing Hugo on Fedora 25