Peter Wake peterwake

Installing Hugo 0.120.3 on macOS (Apple Silicon)

22 Feb 2025

My Hugo site stopped running locally, because Hugo and the theme I am using (Academic CV) switched dramatically from Bootstrap to Tailwind CSS, as well as a bunch of other behaviour changes. I don't have the time to update everything. But Homebrew had already updated Hugo to the latest version. And there's no option to simply tap an older version in Homebrew.

This guide documents the process of manually installing Hugo 0.120.3 on a Mac with an M1/M2/M3 processor and ensuring Homebrew does not update it. I thought I'd share it for anyone else with this problem. The usual disclaimers - you do this at your own risk, etc. etc.

0. Install the latest version using Homebrew

Installation of RGeo with Proj support (also called Proj4)

This is a real pain as of writing (18 Oct 2019). I can't promise it'll work either :)

Reference

Let's start from the beginning...

If you've been hacking around already you should do:

	-- Designed for Mac Mail users, this AppleScript program will search through the SENT items of your chosen mailbox
	-- It is designed to help you (for example) if you are transitioning to a CRM system
	-- run it by typing osascript sent-emails-summariser.scpt on the command line

	-- It will produce summary csv file that shows:
	-- How many emails were sent to each email address
	-- How many emails were sent in total to all emails with the same domain ending
	-- A domain rank whereby emails to domains ending .ac.uk, etc, rank higher

	-- once you have the csv file, sort it in Excel e.g. by ascending DomainRank, descending DomainCount, Domain a-z, Count descending, Email a-z.

	/* For a query of results in the last 31 days */

	SELECT recent_dates.`date`,
	IFNULL(sparse_results.`count`, 0) AS `count`
	FROM
	(SELECT SUBDATE(CURDATE(), number_table.delta) AS `date`
	FROM
	(SELECT 0 delta
	UNION SELECT 1
	UNION SELECT 2

	// openjscad.org
	// Tower Bridge

	let fancy_bricks = true;

	function random_colour() {
	// based on 'BurlyWood';
	return [
	(222 + Math.random() * 10) / 255,
	(184 + Math.random() * 10) / 255,

	//openjscad.org
	// Anna and Charlie's spral

	function main () {
	const twist = 45;
	let i = 0;
	let delta = 1;
	var w = [ ];
	for(var h = 0; h < 100; h++) {
	w.push(

	//openjscad.org
	// Random structure

	function main () {
	var cube1 = cube({size:[4,4,4]}).translate([-2,-2,-2]);
	var hole = cylinder({r:1, h: 4}).translate([0,0,-2]);
	var nut1 = difference(cube1, hole);

	var rod1 = cylinder({r:1, h: 10}).rotateX(90).translate([0,-2,0]);

	# This is a sample class that you'll probably need
	# to do a bit of work on for your own needs, but it
	# will hopefully save you a lot of the headaches that we had

	class AwsMove
	FIVE_MB = 5 * 1024 * 1024
	MAX_THREADS = 25

	def move_folder(s3_client, old_key, new_key)
	# strip preceding '/'

	# config/initializers/haml_filters.rb

	# Thanks to https://gist.github.com/sleepingkingstudios/955676

	# config/initializers/haml_filters.rb

	# in your haml files do e.g.
	# %td.description
	# :markdown
	# #{task.description}