Source: Hugo > Getting Started > Installing

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Installing Hugo on Linux is as simple as dowloading a binary in a tarball, extracting it and make it available on the searchpath ($PATH).

1. Select a version and the platform architecture to install from the Hugo’s releases web page

2. Download the tarball:

   1 2	$ cd ~/Downloads $ wget https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo/releases/download/v0.80.0/hugo_0.80.0_Linux-64bit.tar.gz

3. Unpack the tarball:

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   $ tar -xvf hugo_0.80.0_Linux-64bit.tar.gz LICENSE README.md hugo

4. Move the hugo executable to a directory on your searchpath:

   1	$ sudo mv hugo /usr/local/bin

   Alternatively, move it to some other path and add that path to the PATH environment variable:

   1 2	$ mv hugo /my/tool/path $ export PATH=/my/tool/path:$PATH # add this to your .bashrc

5. Check if the hugo command can be executed:

   1 2	$ hugo version Hugo Static Site Generator v0.80.0-792EF0F4 linux/amd64 BuildDate: 2020-12-31T13:37:58Z