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title: Installing Hugo
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Hugo is written in Go with support for multiple platforms.
The latest release can be found at [Hugo Releases](https://github.com/spf13/hugo/releases).
We currently build for <i class="fa fa-windows"></i> Windows,
<i class="fa fa-linux"></i> Linux,
<i class="fa freebsd-19px"></i> FreeBSD
and <i class="fa fa-apple"></i> OS X
for x64 and i386 architectures.
## Installing Hugo (binary)
Installation is very easy. Simply download the appropriate version for your
platform from [Hugo Releases](https://github.com/spf13/hugo/releases).
Once downloaded it can be run from anywhere. You don't need to install
it into a global location. This works well for shared hosts and other systems
where you don't have a privileged account.
Ideally, you should install it somewhere in your `PATH` for easy use.
`/usr/local/bin` is the most probable location.
On OS X, if you have [Homebrew](http://brew.sh/), installation is even
easier: just run `brew install hugo`.
### Installing Pygments (optional)
The Hugo executable has one *optional* external dependency for source code highlighting (Pygments).
If you want to have source code highlighting using the [highlight shortcode](/extras/highlighting/),
you need to install the Python-based Pygments program. The procedure is outlined on the [Pygments home page](http://pygments.org/).
## Upgrading Hugo
Upgrading Hugo is as easy as downloading and replacing the executable you’ve
placed in your `PATH`.
## Installing from source
### Dependencies
* Git
* Go 1.1+ (Go 1.4+ on Windows, see Go [Issue #8090](https://code.google.com/p/go/issues/detail?id=8090))
* Mercurial
* Bazaar
### Get directly from GitHub
$ export GOPATH=$HOME/go
$ go get -v github.com/spf13/hugo
`go get` will then fetch Hugo and all its dependent libraries to your
`$GOPATH/src` directory, and compile everything into the final `hugo`
(or `hugo.exe`) executable, which you will find sitting in the
`$GOPATH/bin/` directory, all ready to go!
You may run `go get` with the `-u` option to update Hugo's dependencies:
$ go get -u -v github.com/spf13/hugo
## Contributing
Please see the [contributing guide](/doc/contributing/).