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Editions

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Unless your specific deployment needs require the extended/deploy edition, we recommend the extended edition.

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Package managers

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MacPorts

MacPorts is a free and open-source package manager for macOS. To install the extended edition of Hugo:

sudo port install hugo

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Comparison

	Prebuilt binaries	Package managers	Build from source
Easy to install?	✔️	✔️	✔️
Easy to upgrade?	✔️	✔️	✔️
Easy to downgrade?	✔️	✔️ 1	✔️
Automatic updates?	❌	❌ 2	❌
Latest version available?	✔️	✔️	✔️

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1. Easy if a previous version is still installed. ↩︎

2. Possible but requires advanced configuration. ↩︎