uuid-config command not found

Introduction

When you run more command in linux terminal / console, you get the following error message

uuid-config: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: uuid-config: command not found

Solutions to uuid-config: command not found

How To Fix uuid-config: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu uuid-config is provided by libossp-uuid-dev package.

libossp-uuid-dev is:

OSSP uuid is an ISO-C and Perl application programming interface (API) and corresponding command line interface (CLI) for the generation of DCE 1.1 and ISO/IEC 11578:1996 compliant Universally Unique Identifier (UUID). It supports DCE 1.1 variant UUIDs of version 1 (time and node based), version 3 (name based) and version 4 (random number based).

UUIDs are 128 bit numbers which are intended to have a high likelihood of uniqueness over space and time and are computationally difficult to guess. They are globally unique identifiers which can be locally generated without contacting a global registration authority. UUIDs are intended as unique identifiers for both mass tagging objects with an extremely short lifetime and to reliably identifying very persistent objects across a network.

This package contains the development environment for the ossp-uuid library.

To fix this problem, we can install more using the command below.

sudo apt-get -y install libossp-uuid-dev

This command might take some time to finish depending on your machine internet connection.

You can also use apt command to install libossp-uuid-dev.

sudo apt -y install libossp-uuid-dev

Or if you have aptitude installed you can use the following command.

sudo aptitude install libossp-uuid-dev

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to fix uuid-config command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.