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title: Install Hugo on Ubuntu using the Snap Store | Snapcraft
description: Get the latest version of Hugo for on Ubuntu - A fast and flexible static
  site generator
url: https://snapcraft.io/install/hugo/ubuntu
---

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# Install Hugo on **Ubuntu**

# Hugo

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[Install](https://snapcraft.io/install/hugo/ubuntu#install)

#### A fast and flexible static site generator

Hugo is a static site generator written in Go, optimized for speed and designed for flexibility. With its advanced templating system and fast asset pipelines, Hugo renders a complete site in seconds, often less.

Due to its flexible framework, multilingual support, and powerful taxonomy system, Hugo is widely used to create:

* Corporate, government, nonprofit, education, news, event, and project sites
* Documentation sites
* Image portfolios
* Landing pages
* Business, professional, and personal blogs
* Resumes and CVs

Use Hugo's embedded web server during development to instantly see changes to content, structure, behavior, and presentation. Then deploy the site to your host, or push changes to your Git provider for automated builds and deployment.

### Package name

* hugo

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### License

* Apache-2.0

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### Last updated

* 13 October 2026 - latest/stable
* Today - latest/edge

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### Websites

* [gohugo.io](https://gohugo.io/ "https://gohugo.io/")

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### Contact

* [discourse.gohugo.io](https://discourse.gohugo.io/ "https://discourse.gohugo.io/")

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## Enable snaps on Ubuntu and install Hugo

Snaps are applications packaged with all their dependencies to run on all popular Linux distributions from a single build. They update automatically and roll back gracefully.

Snaps are discoverable and installable from the [Snap Store](https://snapcraft.io/store), an app store with an audience of millions.

### Enable snapd

If you’re running [Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)](https://www.ubuntu.com/) or later, including [Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver)](https://www.ubuntu.com/desktop/features) and [Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (Focal Fossa)](https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FocalFossa/ReleaseNotes), you don’t need to do anything. Snap is already installed and ready to go.

For versions of Ubuntu between [14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr)](https://wiki.ubuntu.com/TrustyTahr/ReleaseNotes) and [15.10 (Wily Werewolf)](https://wiki.ubuntu.com/WilyWerewolf/ReleaseNotes), as well as Ubuntu flavours that don’t include *snap* by default, *snap* can be installed from the Ubuntu Software Centre by searching for *snapd*.

Alternatively, snapd can be installed from the command line:

```
sudo apt update
sudo apt install snapd
```

Either log out and back in again, or restart your system, to ensure snap’s paths are updated correctly.

### Install Hugo

To install Hugo, simply use the following command:

```
sudo snap install hugo
```

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