uuidcdef command not found

Introduction

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

uuidcdef: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: uuidcdef: command not found

Solutions to uuidcdef: command not found

How To Fix uuidcdef: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu uuidcdef is provided by uuidcdef package.

uuidcdef is:

This utility generates univerally unique identifiers (UUIDs). It also manages to print them out in OSF form, or as a C structure when handling them in programs, as is the case for an XPLC-enabled library.

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

sudo apt-get -y install uuidcdef

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

You can also use apt command to install uuidcdef.

sudo apt -y install uuidcdef

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

sudo aptitude install uuidcdef

Summary

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