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 user account to run headscale
- provide a default configuration
- install headscale as system service
Community packages might be outdated
The packages mentioned on this page might be outdated or unmaintained. Use the official releases to get the current stable version or to test pre-releases.
Arch Linux¶
Arch Linux offers a package for headscale, install via:
The AUR package headscale-git
can be used to build the current development version.
Fedora, RHEL, CentOS¶
A 3rd-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¶
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.