❄️ Installing Older Versions of `hugo`

Installing a previous version of hugo via brew is not as easy as installing the latest version.

Steps

1. Clone the latest repository of the software that you require. I need an older version of hugo and it uses go so I will be building that from source.

git clone git@github.com:gohugoio/hugo.git

2. Navigate to the directory

cd hugo

3. Checkout to the version of hugo that you require e.g. version v0.113.0 is at SHA5 of 085c1b3d614e23d218ebf9daad909deaa2390c9a.

hugo checkout 085c1b3d614e23d218ebf9daad909deaa2390c9a

4. Install go and build the package

# install go
brew install go

# build package from source
go build

5. Copy hugo file to your PATH

# On Mac
sudo cp hugo /usr/local/bin

6. Assert that the installed version of hugo is the one you require.

hugo version
hugo v0.113.0-085c1b3d614e23d218ebf9daad909deaa2390c9a darwin/arm6

7. Never touch it again.