Build hugo from source

[aben20807]

• Env: WSL2 Ubuntu 20.04
• faced issues (cannot be installed from snap):
  • internal error, please report: running "hugo" failed: cannot find installed snap "hugo" at revision 12665: missing file /snap/hugo/12665/meta/snap.yaml --> give up snap
  • cannot perform operation: mount --rbind /dev /tmp/snap.rootfs_Aaaf74//dev: No such file or directory --> give up snap
  • build github.com/gohugoio/hugo: cannot load embed: malformed module path "embed": missing dot in first path element --> install latest go
• trials:
  • https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/5126#issuecomment-653715201 --> not working for me
  • https://github.com/DamionGans/ubuntu-wsl2-systemd-script --> not working for me
    • uninstall: https://github.com/DamionGans/ubuntu-wsl2-systemd-script/blob/1d24d54714431a02658a0a5849dfd7a8c17c9d51/uninstall.sh

Steps

• install latest go

$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:longsleep/golang-backports
$ sudo apt update
$ sudo apt install golang-go
$ go version
go version go1.18.3 linux/amd64

• clone and build hugo

$ mkdir $HOME/go/src
$ cd $HOME/go/src
$ git clone https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo.git
$ cd hugo
$ go install --tags extended
$ hugo version
hugo v0.99.0-DEV-89c1655ec88cd7286c2ed5f9b7eaed35af9cda52+extended linux/amd64 BuildDate=2022-04-28T11:02:45Z

• If hugo version is failed, remember to add go path to PATH
  • Add export PATH=$PATH:$HOME/go/bin in ~/.bashrc

[aben20807]

Related post: https://aben20807.github.io/posts/20230310-install-hugo-on-ubuntu-20-04/