# Adding Theme
**URL:** https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/adding-theme/10755
**Category:** support
**Created:** [February 27, 2018, 12:45am UTC](https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/adding-theme/10755 "2018-02-27T00:45:06Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@tider](https://discourse.gohugo.io/u/tider)
#### Post date: [February 27, 2018, 12:45am UTC](https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/adding-theme/10755/1 "2018-02-27T00:45:06Z")
When trying to apply a theme via “git submodule add [https://github.com/budparr/gohugo-theme-ananke.git](https://github.com/budparr/gohugo-theme-ananke.git) themes/ananke” my cmd just hangs. Am I missing something here?
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### Author:  [@RickCogley](https://discourse.gohugo.io/u/RickCogley)
#### Post date: [February 27, 2018, 1:09am UTC](https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/adding-theme/10755/2 "2018-02-27T01:09:34Z")
Hard to tell what the problem is from the information you gave, I’m afraid. A few shots in the dark:
- git’s installed / in your path?
- git’s basically configured
- your project is git initialized? (is a git repo)
- you’re in the project when you run the `git submodule` command?
- (of course) you’re not including the quote marks when entering the command right?
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### Author:  [@tider](https://discourse.gohugo.io/u/tider)
#### Post date: [February 27, 2018, 11:33pm UTC](https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/adding-theme/10755/3 "2018-02-27T23:33:05Z")
Everything was set up according to the Quick Start within Hugo but for some reason, that command didn’t work. So instead I just copied the theme from the Github page, cloned it, then placed in theme folder which worked. Thanks for the help though.