Severe: Failed to add template

[mvrozanti]

Following the simple instructions in README in Netlify I was able to get hugo-academic theme running, but I can't seem to get it working with github.io pages alone.

git clone https://github.com/sourcethemes/academic-kickstart.git mvrozanti.github.io
cd mvrozanti.github.io
git submodule update --init --recursive
hugo server

Leads me to:

ERROR 2018/09/20 15:13:09 Failed to add template "partials/widgets/about.html" in path "partials/widgets/about.html": template: partials/widgets/about.html:46: unexpected "=" in operand
ERROR 2018/09/20 15:13:09 partials/widgets/about.html : template: partials/widgets/about.html:46: unexpected "=" in operand
Building sites … ERROR 2018/09/20 15:13:09 Error while rendering "home" in "": template: index.html:4:3: executing "index.html" at <partial "widget_page...>: error calling partial: template: partials/widget_page.html:23:9: executing "partials/widget_page.html" at <partial $widget $par...>: error calling partial: template: "partials/widgets/about.html" is an incomplete or empty template
Total in 20 ms
Error: Error building site: logged 3 error(s)

Hugo version:

 $ hugo version
Hugo Static Site Generator v0.48/extended linux/amd64 BuildDate: 2018-09-02T19:31:50+0200

Am I missing some config?

EDIT: upon accessing the github.io page after pushing, I get hugo-academic's README.md.

[gcushen]

The Hugo in Linux package managers is broken. Please get Hugo from the official Hugo releases page on Github.

[mvrozanti]

Many thanks! It worked. How did you know the package was broken?

[gcushen]

There have been quite a few other reports on here similar to yours from other Linux users. They discovered that the Hugo in Linux package repositories was not compiled against the correct version of Hugo's dependencies, hence it gives weird behaviour. The official Hugo download on Github unaffected :)

[lkreimann]

Woa... I struggled with building my Hugo app on Linux for quite some time and couldn't find a solution. Thanks for the hint!

For anyone who can install Snap packages on their Linux distro: That definitely works. The Hugo package you can install via from apt-get definitely doesn't work and is stuck on version 0.40.x.