Installing Tailscale via static binary

toby2106 · September 25, 2024 at 8:50 AM

Read online that it was possible to install Tailscale via static binary on LibreELEC; however, the tutorial assumed alot of general knowledge about the LibreELEC command system. I for one have zero experience outside the basics of the Raspi 5 OS hence why im here.

Ive followed the tutorial set by Tailscale, yet I'm still facing errors.

Tailscale Guide:

Setting up Tailscale with static binaries (unsupported) · Tailscale Docs

Learn how to use static binaries to install Tailscale on unsupported Linux distributions.

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Setting up Tailscale with static binaries (unsupported)

If you would like to try Tailscale on a Linux distribution we don't yet support, we offer statically-compiled binaries on a best-effort basis.

If you use these binaries, contact us so that we can consider adding official support for your distribution.

We offer static binaries for x86 and ARM CPUs, in both 32-bit and 64-bit variants.

Download the static binaries for your CPU architecture:
- Stable release track
- Unstable development track
Unpack the archive:
Code
```
tar xvf tailscale_VERSION_ARCH.tgz
```
Start tailscaled:
Code
```
sudo tailscaled --state=tailscaled.state
```
If you want to configure systemd to run tailscaled automatically, a service configuration is available in the systemd/ subdirectory of the unpacked archive.
Connect your machine to your Tailscale network and authenticate in your browser:
Code
```
sudo tailscale up
```
You're connected! You can find your Tailscale IPv4 address by running:
Code
```
tailscale ip -4
```

If the device you added is a server or remotely-accessed device, you may want to consider disabling key expiry to prevent the need to periodically re-authenticate.

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What I've done so far,

Enabled Raspi Tools in the LibreELEC add-ons

wget https://pkgs.tailscale.com/stable/tailscale_1.74.1_arm64.tgz

tar xvf tailscale_1.74.1_arm64.tgz

tailscaled --state=tailscaled.state

Error = -sh: tailscaled: not found

I tried
./tailscale_1.74.1_arm64/tailscaled

I proceed to get the error that tailscale has stoped.

What am I doing wrong/ can anyone help me get to my goal.
Have in mind that I am somewhat new to this system and the raspi 5 as a whole

Peterc · September 27, 2024 at 9:13 AM

Hello toby2106

Bellow is a copy and paste of my tailscale config file from: /storage/.config/system.d The top half of the tailscaled.service file is the system.d config for tailscale and the bottom half are notes to help remind me of how to setup tailscale.

Hope the file help you to set up and runing tailscale !

Reminder: use the command: ./tailscale set --exit-node-allow-lan-access=true

Before you set the exit node so you do not get lock out from ssh to your raspi.

Do a LibreELEC backup to be safe !!

Regards: peter

File name: tailscaled.service

Code

[Unit]
Description=Tailscale LibreELEC agent
Documentation=https://tailscale.com/kb/
Wants=network-pre.target
After=network-pre.target
StartLimitIntervalSec=0
StartLimitBurst=0

[Service]
EnvironmentFile=/storage/.config/tailscale.d/systemd/tailscaled.defaults
ExecStartPre=/storage/.config/tailscale.d/tailscaled --cleanup
ExecStart=/storage/.config/tailscale.d/tailscaled --state=/storage/.config/tailscale.d/tailscaled.state --socket=/run/tailscale/tailscaled.sock --port $PORT $FLAGS
ExecStopPost=/storage/.config/tailscale.d/tailscaled --cleanup

Restart=on-failure

RuntimeDirectory=tailscale
RuntimeDirectoryMode=0755
StateDirectory=tailscale
StateDirectoryMode=0750

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

##////////////////////////////////////////////////##
#  ssh into LibreELEC and wget the tailscale package.
#  Download from: 
#  https://pkgs.tailscale.com/stable/#static
#  Downlown to: .config
#  #  wget https://pkgs.tailscale.com/stable/#static
#  tar xvf tailscale-package
#  mv tailscale-package tailscale.d
#  
#  Desktop machine scp the systemd file: tailscaled.service to LibreELEC.
#  cd /home/sysadmin/Documents/Kodi
#  scp tailscaled.service [email protected]:
#
#  Login: ssh [email protected]
#  cp tailscaled.service /storage/.config/system.d
#  cd /storage/.config/system.d
#
#  Run 'systemctl daemon-reload' to reload units
#  systemctl enable tailscaled.service
#  systemctl start tailscaled.service
#  
#  cd /storage/.config/tailscale.d
#  ./tailscale up
#
#  ./tailscale exit-node list
#  exit node, use `tailscale set --exit-node=` followed by the hostname or IP
#  only for LibreELEC:  --accept-dns=false
#  ./tailscale set --accept-dns=false
#  ./tailscale set --exit-node-allow-lan-access=true
#  ./tailscale exit-node suggest
#  ./tailscale set --exit-node=hostname
#  ./tailscale exit-node list --filter=UK
#
#  Show machines on your tailnet configured as exit nodes
#  ./tailscale status | grep mull
#  ./tailscale bugreport
#  systemctl status tailscaled.service > bugs.txt

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**chewitt** · September 27, 2024 at 4:17 PM

Interesting. I started work on a tailscale add-on about 18-months ago, but didn't get that far down the path of a working install to really make anything work. I might have to redo things as I use Tailscale more than plain WireGuard these days. Although, I'm so time-poor at the moment that I wouldn't hold breath on anything progressing

rundervinkje · December 20, 2024 at 2:28 PM New

Whilst looking for a way to access kodi when out of my home network, I stumbled upon this thread.

I think my solution will only work if you, like me, have a seperate Pi/server running besides the kodi server/SBC/etc.

When installing tailscale on my seperate Pi, I connect to it via Tailscale apps.
Then, using subnets https://tailscale.com/kb/1019/subnets, I'm able to access my kodi player and stream from there.

Maybe not your use case but wanted to share for any future searchers stumbling across this forum post.