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Separate the term "tailnet" from user and be more explicit about providing a single tailnet. Also be more explicit about users. Refer to "headscale users" when mentioning commandline invocations and use the term "local users" when discussing unix accounts. Fixes: #2335
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Community packages
Several Linux distributions and community members provide packages for headscale. Those packages may be used instead of the official releases provided by the headscale maintainers. Such packages offer improved integration for their targeted operating system and usually:
- setup a dedicated local user account to run headscale
- provide a default configuration
- install headscale as system service
!!! warning "Community packages might be outdated"
The packages mentioned on this page might be outdated or unmaintained. Use the [official releases](./official.md) to
get the current stable version or to test pre-releases.
[](https://repology.org/project/headscale/versions)
Arch Linux
Arch Linux offers a package for headscale, install via:
pacman -S headscale
The AUR package headscale-git can be used to build the current
development version.
Fedora, RHEL, CentOS
A third-party repository for various RPM based distributions is available at: https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/jonathanspw/headscale/. The site provides detailed setup and installation instructions.
Nix, NixOS
A Nix package is available as: headscale. See the NixOS package site for installation
details.
Gentoo
emerge --ask net-vpn/headscale
Gentoo specific documentation is available here.
OpenBSD
Headscale is available in ports. The port installs headscale as system service with rc.d and provides usage
instructions upon installation.
pkg_add headscale