Quickstart guide not working - not detecting any themes

[hristo.b]

Hello,

I just found Hugo, looks awesome, but I haven’t been able to make it work for more than a day now. I am following the commands from the quickstart:

hugo new site quickstart
cd quickstart
git init
git submodule add https://github.com/theNewDynamic/gohugo-theme-ananke.git themes/ananke
echo "theme = 'ananke'" >> hugo.toml
hugo server

And it is able to run the server, but gives me the warning:

WARN 2023/11/03 17:40:21 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 2023/11/03 17:40:21 found no layout file for "HTML" for kind "taxonomyTerm": You should create a template file which matches Hugo Layouts Lookup Rules for this combination.

And when I open localhost:1313, it’s just a white screen.

I then thought it couldn’t figure out where the layout files were, so I tried to help it by explicitly pointing them out by
hugo --layoutDir ./themes/<theme>/layouts, and it is showing me something now, but obviously not what is meant to be shown (See attached image)

I tried explicitly installing dart-sass, go, and so on, reinstalling hugo, no difference. I am on Ubuntu 22.04, so the OS is not exotic either.

Can anyone give me a hint as to what is happening?

[jmooring]

Which version are you using? Type hugo version

[hristo.b]

0.68.3, which if it is the same as the github releases, is from 2020 for some reason. I guess this is it, thank you.