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You might remember that I'm a pretty big fan [1] of Tailscale [2], which makes it easy to connect your various devices together in a secure tailnet [3], or private network. Tailscale is super simple to set up on most platforms, but you'll need to install it manually [4] if there isn't a prebuilt package for your system.
Here's a condensed list of the steps that I took to manually install Tailscale [5] on VMware's Photon OS [6], though the same (or similar) steps should also work on just about any other `systemd`-based system.
[5] steps that I took to manually install Tailscale
wget https://pkgs.tailscale.com/stable/tailscale_1.34.1_arm64.tgz tar xvf tailscale_1.34.1_arm64.tgz cd tailscale_1.34.1_arm64/
sudo install -m 755 tailscale /usr/bin/ sudo install -m 755 tailscaled /usr/sbin/ sudo install -m 644 systemd/tailscaled.defaults /etc/default/tailscaled sudo install -m 644 systemd/tailscaled.service /usr/lib/systemd/system/
sudo systemctl enable tailscaled sudo systemctl start tailscaled
[7] https://pkgs.tailscale.com/stable/#static
From that point, just `sudo tailscale up` [8] like normal.
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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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