HUGO found no layout file for HTML for kind home

ERR:

found no layout file for "HTML" for "section"

2: Explanation

If you are installing hugo with apt and testing is failing with the above error, then here is a potential cause, as spelled out here on a stackoverflow, where the answer given was correct but was downvoted: solution (soft of).

Here is my version of that downvoted solution for all you debian derivative users:

IMPORTANT: REPLACE hugo_extended_0.123.3_linux-amd64.deb with today’s latest. The following is an example to see what you must do:

FIX:

wget https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo/releases/download/v0.123.3/hugo_extended_0.123.3_linux-amd64.deb

sudo dpkg -i hugo_extended_0.123.3_linux-amd64.deb

rm hugo_extended_0.123.3_linux-amd64.deb