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title: "Tailscale on VMware Photon OS" # Title of the blog post.
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date: 2022-12-14T10:21:12-06:00 # Date of post creation.
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# lastmod: 2022-12-14T10:21:12-06:00 # Date when last modified
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description: "How to manually install Tailscale on VMware's Photon OS - or any other systemd-based platform without official Tailscale packages." # Description used for search engine.
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series: Tips # Projects, Scripts, vRA8, K8s on vSphere
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tags:
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- vmware
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- linux
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- wireguard
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- networking
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- security
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- tailscale
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---
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You might remember that I'm a [pretty big fan](/secure-networking-made-simple-with-tailscale/) of [Tailscale](https://tailscale.com), which makes it easy to connect your various devices together in a secure [tailnet](https://tailscale.com/kb/1136/tailnet/), or private network. Tailscale is super simple to set up on most platforms, but you'll need to [install it manually](https://tailscale.com/download/linux/static) if there isn't a prebuilt package for your system.
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Here's a condensed list of the [steps that I took to manually install Tailscale](/esxi-arm-on-quartz64/#installing-tailscale) on VMware's [Photon OS](https://github.com/vmware/photon), though the same (or similar) steps should also work on just about any other `systemd`-based system.
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1. Visit [https://pkgs.tailscale.com/stable/#static](https://pkgs.tailscale.com/stable/#static) to see the latest stable version for your system architecture, and copy the URL. For instance, I'll be using `https://pkgs.tailscale.com/stable/tailscale_1.34.1_arm64.tgz`.
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2. Download and extract it to the system:
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```shell
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wget https://pkgs.tailscale.com/stable/tailscale_1.34.1_arm64.tgz
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tar xvf tailscale_1.34.1_arm64.tgz
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cd tailscale_1.34.1_arm64/
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```
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3. Install the binaries and service files:
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```shell
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sudo install -m 755 tailscale /usr/bin/
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sudo install -m 755 tailscaled /usr/sbin/
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sudo install -m 644 systemd/tailscaled_defaults /etc/defaults/tailscaled
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sudo install -m 644 systemd/tailscaled.service /usr/lib/systemd/system/
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```
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4. Start the service:
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```shell
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sudo systemctl enable tailscaled
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sudo systemctl start tailscaled
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```
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From that point, just [`sudo tailscale up`](https://tailscale.com/kb/1080/cli/#up) like normal.
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{{% notice info "Updating Tailscale" %}}
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Since Tailscale was installed outside of any package manager, it won't get updated automatically. When new versions are released you'll need to update it manually. To do that:
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1. Download and extract the new version.
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2. Install the `tailscale` and `tailscaled` binaries as described above (no need to install the service files again).
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3. Restart the service with `sudo systemctl restart tailscaled`.
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{{% /notice %}}
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