Quickstart guide not working - not detecting any themes

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?

Which version are you using? Type hugo version

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