Can Tailscaled on macOS be updated remotely?

macOS
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I’m running Tailscale on a macOS machine (Mac App Store version). When there’s a Tailscale update, it can’t be applied remotely on this machine because the Mac App Store can’t update running apps.

Would tailscaled be a workaround for this? i.e. can tailscaled be updated remotely on macOS?

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There is no built-in mechanism for this. Theoretically you could ssh into the machine and do an upgrade remotely via the console.

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Manually via ssh would be fine for sure, can anyone confirm whether this is doable?

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Three ways to run Tailscale on macOS · Tailscale describes several possibilities:

  1. Tailscaled-on-macOS
  2. The CLI command to ask the App Store to update: mas install 1475387142
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Thanks very much DGentry, I’ll try updating via CLI with mas when the next macOS update is pushed and go from there