Update Hugo

If your current version of Hugo is not the latest, you can manually install the newer or latest version.

Remove Current version of Hugo

sudo apt-get remove --auto-remove hugo

Install Hugo using dpkg utility

Confirm your server architecture

sudo uname -l

Output

X86_64

Go to Hugo release page to see most recent stable release

https://gohugo.io/categories/releases https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo/releases

Get the url of the most recent release and download with wget, example:

wget https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo/releases/download/v0.50/hugo_0.50_Linux-64bit.deb

Use following command to extract the files and install Hugo package (example):

sudo dpkg -i hugo_0.50_Linux-64bit.deb

Run the following to verify installation:

sudo hugo version

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