I just tried it and it’s was not necessary to build it myself. I have downloaded this package: hugo_0.16_linux-64bit.tgz (https://github.com/spf13/hugo/releases/download/v0.16/hugo_0.16_linux-64bit.tgz), extracted it and executed hugo.
Site generation and server worked out-of-the-box. The automatic re-generation (-w) after changing a post does not work.