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Package managers

Chocolatey

Chocolatey is a free and open source package manager for Windows. This will install the extended edition of Hugo:

choco install hugo-extended

Scoop

Scoop is a free and open source package manager for Windows. This will install the extended edition of Hugo:

scoop install hugo-extended

Winget

Winget is Microsoft's official free and open source package manager for Windows. This will install the extended edition of Hugo:

winget install Hugo.Hugo.Extended

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{{% note %}} See these detailed instructions to install GCC on Windows. {{% /note %}}

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. ↩︎