Execute of template failed on Theme Install, tried methods in forum but did not work

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what I did:
hugo new site emoxin
cd themes
git clone --recurse-submodules Abraham Raji / gruvhugo · GitLab

then I met errors:

WARN found no layout file for “html” for kind “home”: You should create a template file which matches Hugo Layouts Lookup Rules for this combination.
WARN found no layout file for “html” for kind “taxonomy”: You should create a template file which matches Hugo Layouts Lookup Rules for this combination.

…

so I duplicate everything in emoxin/themes/gruvhugo/layouts to emoxin/layouts, but have more errors:

ERROR render of “taxonomy” failed: “E:\github\emoxin.github.io\emoxin\emoxin\layouts_default\baseof.html:3:8”: execute of template failed: template: _default/list.html:3:8: executing “_default/list.html” at <partial “head.html” .>: error calling partial: “E:\github\emoxin.github.io\emoxin\emoxin\layouts\partials\head.html:44:51”: execute of template failed: template: partials/head.html:44:51: executing “partials/head.html” at : error calling toCSS: type not supported in Resource transformations
ERROR render of “404” failed: “E:\github\emoxin.github.io\emoxin\emoxin\layouts_default\baseof.html:3:8”: execute of template failed: template: 404.html:3:8: executing “404.html” at <partial “head.html” .>: error calling partial: “E:\github\emoxin.github.io\emoxin\emoxin\layouts\partials\head.html:44:51”: execute of template failed: template: partials/head.html:44:51: executing “partials/head.html” at : error calling toCSS: type not supported in Resource transformations
Total in 12 ms
Error: error building site: render: failed to render pages: render of “home” failed: “E:\github\emoxin.github.io\emoxin\emoxin\layouts_default\baseof.html:3:8”: execute of template failed: template: index.html:3:8: executing “index.html” at <partial “head.html” .>: error calling partial: “E:\github\emoxin.github.io\emoxin\emoxin\layouts\partials\head.html:44:51”: execute of template failed: template: partials/head.html:44:51: executing “partials/head.html” at : error calling toCSS: type not supported in Resource transformations

I also tried to copy everything from exampleSite to the root directory but also did not work.
this is my repository and I wonder how to use exampleSite correctly. THANKS!

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You missed a step.

hugo new site emoxin
cd emoxin
git clone --recurse-submodules https://gitlab.com/avron/gruvhugo themes/gruvhugo
echo "theme = 'gruvhugo'" >> hugo.toml
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Thanks! I tried your way, now the terminal has no warnings, but the preview image is weird, it has no contents. Is there anything wrong with this theme?

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Well, it hasn’t been updated in a long time, so it’s going to throw some errors.

Regardless, each theme provides its own installation and configuration instructions. Read their docs:
https://gitlab.com/avron/gruvhugo/-/blob/master/README.md#configuration

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I’ve read this but the readme file is so short and has little instructrions :rofl:
Maybe I have to change another one. Thank you!

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It means copy the configuration settings from the config in the exampleSite directory.

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Well it confuses me a lot. Every guide tolds me need to add theme=xxx in config.toml, but when I create a new site (the hugo version is latest), I only see the hugo.toml, not config.toml. config.toml always in this path: root/themes/XXtheme

Once I tried to copy every file in exampleSite into the root directory, but still did not work.

Now I copy config.toml to the root directoy(emoxin), but it said this instead:
Error: command error: Unable to locate config file or config directory. Perhaps you need to create a new site.

Quite confusing :face_with_spiral_eyes:

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Maybe you should start with something basic and easy:

https://gohugo.io/getting-started/quick-start/

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Thanks!