unable to setup hugo server in local

[boopalan-s]

bs@bs-Lenovo-E41-25:~/numpy.org$ hugo server
Watching for changes in /home/bs/numpy.org/{archetypes,assets,content,layouts,static,themes}
Watching for config changes in /home/bs/numpy.org/config.yaml, /home/bs/numpy.org/themes/scientific-python-hugo-theme/config.yaml, /home/bs/numpy.org/themes/scientific-python-hugo-theme/themes/hugo-atom-feed/config.toml
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hugo v0.147.8-10da2bd765d227761641f94d713d094e88b920ae+extended linux/amd64 BuildDate=2025-06-07T12:59:52Z VendorInfo=gohugoio

ERROR TOCSS-DART: failed to transform "theme-css/sphinx-design/index.scss.css" (text/x-scss): got unexpected EOF when executing "sass". The user running hugo must have read and execute permissions on this program. With execute permissions only, this error is thrown.
ERROR TOCSS-DART: failed to transform "theme-css/pst/bootstrap.scss.css" (text/x-scss): ":1:1": connection is shut down
ERROR TOCSS-DART: failed to transform "theme-css/pst/pydata-sphinx-theme.scss.css" (text/x-scss): ":1:1": connection is shut down
Built in 4639 ms
Error: error building site: TOCSS-DART: failed to transform "theme-css/pst/bootstrap.scss.css" (text/x-scss): ":1:1": connection is shut down

[melissawm]

You need to use a specific (extended) hugo version, and that should enable you to build the site. Please follow the workflow outlined in our CI here and here. Here's the relevant snippet:

PYTHON_VERSION = "3.13"
HUGO_VERSION = "0.141.0"
DART_SASS_VERSION = "1.83.4"