Hugo version not updating to latest

Question

I am trying to work with the Hugo static site generator.

Problem: Hugo is saying it is updated to the latest version but it is not.

$ hugo version
Hugo Static Site Generator v0.40.1 linux/amd64 BuildDate: 2018-04-25T17:16:11Z

But the latest version is now v0.70.0

System: Windows Subsystem for Linux via the terminal in Visual Studio Code v1.45.0

Any help would be much appreciated thank you all.

Answer 1

If you're using a Debian-based system, e.g. Ubuntu, you can download the appropriate .deb from https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo/releases and install it with, for example:

sudo dpkg --install ./hugo_extended_0.70.0_Linux-64bit.deb

I wrote about this in footnote 10 in my Hugo Tutorial.