Hi — can anyone suggest to me the easiest way to install Hugo on a Mac which is running OSX 10.6.8? I’m having a very hard time with TigerBrew (HomeBrew is too new for my operating system). I’m new at this sort of thing, so it would be easiest for me to follow step-by-step directions. Thank you, …

It looks as if someone else may previously have encountered this error. (on macOS 10.9.5) They were able to run Hugo version 5.4.0, if that would work for your situation: https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/hugo-0-54-0-works-fine-but-0-55-x-will-not-run/18774/4

Thank you for this. It appears to be an elegant, straight-forward method which I should have considered straight away. I got hung up on instruction #2 for a moment, until realizing I needed to install wget before attempting to use the command, but I figured it out and was able to complete your inst…

[image] Hilbert: However…the final step, “hugo version” (to verify installation?) returned the error “illegal instruction”. I’m guessing this protocol is too modern for me, and my system, at the moment. Is there another way to verify installation? Hmm. As you said, running hugo version should…

@Hilbert Just to make sure: What model is your mac and is it actually capable of running 64bit software?

holehan - I use a Mac Pro “Quad Core” 2.66 (Original). https://everymac.com/systems/apple/mac_pro/specs/mac-pro-quad-2.66-specs.html Working around problems like this (consequences of running an old operating system) are my only complaints. I’ve never had a problem with it…

zwbetz - I was able to download 0.57.2, extract it, and copy it to /usr/local/bin. I returned to the top of the directory stack, but still got the “illegal instruction” error when attempting to verify installation. I could try the non-extended version (do you know the URL for that?), but I am also…

which -a hugo will show you all hugo executables in your path. If /usr/local/bin/hugo is the only or top one, you’re good. You’ll find all “official” hugo releases including extended ones at https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo/releases .

Thanks for your help, zwbetz + holehan — I’ve made some great progress. I was able to find, download, uncompress, and install the unextended version of Hugo 0.57.2, and have verified its location within the correct path. However… I’m still unable to verify installation. The new error I’m getting…

andytough, you are a genius. this was exactly the problem. thankyouthankyouthankyouthankyou! !!!

Installing Hugo on OSX 10.6.8

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zwbetz September 1, 2019, 3:23am 2

Try downloading the binary and moving it to a location already on your PATH. See these steps

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