Tailscale on KDE Linux

Warning

This is an UNOFFICIAL Tailscale installation script. Part of the script is written by AI, but reviewed by a human. Proceed with caution

This script is derived from the original guide.

Installing Tailscale

git clone https://github.com/xuars/kdelinux-tailscale.git ~/kdelinux-tailscale
cd ~/kdelinux-tailscale

chmod +x ./*.sh 
sudo ./install.sh

source /etc/profile.d/tailscale.sh # adds Tailscale to PATH without needing to reboot 
tailscale up --qr

Tip

The script automatically sets your user to be the tailscale operator, letting you run tailscale commands without sudo

Updating Tailscale

Tailscale should be able to update itself now! Try running sudo /opt/tailscale/tailscale update, and if that works, tailscale set --auto-update.

Known issues

• sudo tailscale : sudo: tailscale: command not found Tailscale operator is set to the user who runs the installation script. If you need to use it with sudo, run sudo /opt/tailscale/tailscale

How it works

The Tailscale binaries tailscale and tailscaled are installed in /opt/tailscale/. The Tailscale systemd unit file is installed at /etc/systemd/system/tailscale.service. The override file to reconfigure the services Exec commands is installed at /etc/systemd/system/tailscaled.service.d/override.conf. The defaults file for the variables PORT and FLAGS is installed at /etc/default/tailscaled

The service is then started and enabled via systemctl.