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Question: Question: How to resolve the error "uuid.h: No such file or directory"

Neelam Jha
1205 days ago

Question: How to resolve the error "uuid.h: No such file or directory"

I receive following error while compiling kent

../inc/uuid.h:8:10: fatal error: uuid/uuid.h: No such file or directory
#include <uuid/uuid.h>
^~~~~~~~~~~~~
compilation terminated.
../inc/common.mk:420: recipe for target 'uuid.o' failed
make[1]: *** [uuid.o] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/simuG/ancestral/GenomeAlignmentTools/kent/src/lib'
makefile:7: recipe for target 'topLibs' failed
make: *** [topLibs] Error 2

Best Answer
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You might need to install the libuuid-devel package to obtain the /usr/include/uuid/ directory of files. This appears to be a new dependency with this recent addition of uuid code. 

Try following with Ubuntu

sudo apt-get install uuid-dev

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libuuid1
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