How to install Tailscale on LibreELEC?

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    Installing Tailscale via Static Binary

    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:
    https://tailscale.com/kb/1053/install-static
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    Setting up Tailscale with static binaries (unsupported)

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    toby2106
    September 25, 2024 at 8:50 AM
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    Installing Tailscale via Docker Image

    Hello all,

    For last few months I been using Tailscale as a docker image on my:

    Raspberry pi 4 - 2gig memory - LibreELEC (official): 12.0.1 (RPi4.aarch64)

    So I have written a bash script to install the Tailscale docker image and update the Tailscale image when needed with Watchtower.



    Regards: peter



    Remember to backup first before setting up Tailscale docker image !!



    Install LibreELEC Docker app before you run the tailscale.sh bash script to install Tailscale docker image.

    Add-ons / Install from…
    Peterc
    November 25, 2024 at 11:25 AM

    Installing the Tailscale addon from the LE repo would be easier than all the above suggestions. No need for Docker containers or not-existing flatpak’s.

    I ran tailscale from static binaries for a long time, but updating the binary was a neglected maintenance task. I learnt a few weeks ago from this thread that there is now a tailscale addon. It seems to be from LibreElec 13 only, so knowing it is almost certainly unsupported I manually installed it on the latest stable release. It doesn't actually work out of the box (probably because it isn't designed for this version of LibreElec), but it is a nicer way to get the latest tailscale binary than I had before. I'm disabling the addon itself and adding to .config/autostart.sh:


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    tailscaled --state /storage/.cache/tailscale/tailscaled.state --socket /run/tailscale/tailscaled.sock &

    Bring tailscale up in the usual way like any other server - no special options (the addon provides a script that turns off netfilter-mode, which does NOT seem to be correct on LibreElec 12). Until LibreElec 13 is released, this might be the easiest way to use tailscale.


    Hope this helps somebody.