Anake - Getting Started

[davidbeckonline]

Hello,

first of all, I wanted to thank everyone working on this theme. It's great. I have a blog running Ananke here:
davidbeck.online

My question: Can anyone please help me understand the 'right' / 'recommended' setup

Now, I would like to re-launch this blog. There are some changes, I would like to make. And I need to transition from Cloud9 to local VS Code (on a Mac). But also, I want to refresh the hugo version and the theme. Meaning, I want to start from scratch again. With the update of the theme ongoing, it feels, as if there are many moving pieces. And I have to admit, that I am a little bit lost. My goal is to follow the right approach, so that I set myself up for the future.

With my current approach, I am running into error

Error: command error: failed to load modules: module "ananke" not found in "/Users/xxx/source_code/davidbeck-online-relaunch/themes/ananke"; either add it as a Hugo Module or store it in "/Users/xxx/source_code/davidbeck-online-relaunch/themes".: module does not exist

This is what I do:
In VSCode
hugo new site davidbeck-online-relaunch
Then, I initialize the repository. Which is creating [github.com/davidbeckonline/davidbeck-online-relaunch](https://github.com/davidbeckonline/davidbeck-online-relaunch).

After that, I run
hugo mod init github.com/davidbeckonline/davidbeck-online-relaunch

Returning:

go: creating new go.mod: module github.com/davidbeckonline/davidbeck-online-relaunch
hugo: to add module requirements and sums:
hugo mod tidy

After that, I adjust the hugo.toml

baseURL = 'https://www.davidbeck.online/‘
languageCode = 'en-us'
title = 'My New Hugo Site'

theme = ['ananke']

[module]
[[module.imports]]
path = "[github.com/theNewDynamic/gohugo-theme-ananke/v2](http://github.com/theNewDynamic/gohugo-theme-ananke/v2)“
disable=false

When performing
hugo server
after that, I am getting the error message given above.

My go.mod file looks as follows:

module github.com/davidbeckonline/davidbeck-online-relaunch
go 1.23.5
require github.com/theNewDynamic/gohugo-theme-ananke/v2 v2.12.0 // indirect

My go.sum is

github.com/theNewDynamic/gohugo-theme-ananke/v2 v2.12.0 h1:AF1mLNANYQYC9QaFnXh9iZagUj32ImnZIxREP8XeAS0=
github.com/theNewDynamic/gohugo-theme-ananke/v2 v2.12.0/go.mod h1:+a6uqEsCq0+rqHWY5W5QA3P9DNnxcbyCw+CVEB+Uveg=

Many new aspects for me, so please accept my apologies for any wrong understanding.

[davidsneighbour]

go: creating new go.mod: module github.com/davidbeckonline/davidbeck-online-relaunch
hugo: to add module requirements and sums:
hugo mod tidy

Did you run hugo mod tidy? It sounds like you did not and it does not have the module files loaded. If you did run it (run it again) please return the FULL subsequent output of hugo server instead of the parts you find interesting for us :) Sometimes the issue is hidden some lines before it fails.

Also add the output of hugo config (run hugo config > config.txt and attach the config.txt to keep it clean).

Just in case... I assume your module path is

path = "github.com/theNewDynamic/gohugo-theme-ananke/v2“

and not

path = "[github.com/theNewDynamic/gohugo-theme-ananke/v2](http://github.com/theNewDynamic/gohugo-theme-ananke/v2)“

which I assume is a copy-paste issue.

[davidsneighbour]

I also tend to run hugo mod get -u ./... instead of hugo mod tidy.

tidy: clean up and reload the latest module
mod get: update all modules to their latest version and if not available download them to the cache

[davidbeckonline]

Thank you for your feedback @davidsneighbour .
Very helpful.

I experimented a bit and got to something that is running now. See
https://github.com/davidbeckonline/davidbeck-online-relaunch

Indeed, I had missed the hugo mod tidy step.

This time, I followed
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLaI3ZJUVTU
to add Ananke as a module.

used hugo mod get [github.com/theNewDynamic/gohugo-theme-ananke/v2](http://github.com/theNewDynamic/gohugo-theme-ananke/v2)

I think, I need to read a little bit more on what options I have.

For now, I thank you very much for your support! Outstanding work you are doing here.

[davidbeckonline]

I was finally able to put together a documentation - based on my current understanding.
You can find it here:

https://www.davidbeck.online/post/2025-03_hugo-relaunch-ananke/

Will try to polish this documentation in the future. For now it is: "this is how I got it to work" status.