Installing latest version from Linux distribution repository

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I am curious why sudo apt install hugo is installing version 0.111.3 instead?

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Because your Debian installation is presumably the stable one (Bookworm). See https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=hugo.

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I am using MX Linux. So, I guess it’s default kernel is the last stable version. I will ask in their forum which other kernel to use.

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Is the kernel relevant here? You could try to download the latest Debian packages from Hugo’s Git repo and install that one.

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I did that, but after tinkering a lot with snap and homebrew to no avail. The docs still recommend sudo apt install hugo. Apparently, only the unstable version of debian is using the current Hugo version.

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Preceded by this admonition:

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I skimmed through the documentation and missed that (Linux noob, hehee). But a quick Google search popped this answer

wget https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo/releases/download/v0.126.1/hugo_extended_0.126.1_linux-amd64.deb
sudo dpkg -i hugo_extended_0.126.1_linux-amd64.deb

Is this worth documenting as an alternative?

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Grab the .deb binary from the latest release on Github and use your package manager to install.

Repos in the Linux distros can be out of date.

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