Re: Missing uuid_generate_v1()

On Wednesday 06 October 2010 6:56:22 pm Mike Christensen wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 6:51 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> > Mike Christensen <mike(at)kitchenpc(dot)com> writes:
> >> On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 6:48 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> >>> So you don't have libuuid installed.  Go forth and get it ...
> >>
> >> What's the easiest way to do that?  Is there a .bin file I can run?
> >> Or a URL I can wget?  Thanks!
> >
> > I'd expect it'd be available as a standard package for your platform ---
> > see yum or apt-get or whatever you use there.
> >
> >                        regards, tom lane
>
> Ok I just installed anything that looked relevant:
>
> apt-get install libuuid1 uuid-dev uuid-runtime
>
> It said libuuid1 was already installed, but installed the other two.
> However, libuuid.so.16 is still "not found"..

What version of Ubuntu and libuuid are you running? The stock version of uuid
that came with my Ubuntu 8.04 does not work. I downloaded a newer
version(1.6.2) from:
http://www.ossp.org/pkg/lib/uuid/
I compiled it and Postgres was happy.

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