Re: Missing uuid_generate_v1()

On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 7:21 PM, Adrian Klaver <adrian(dot)klaver(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> 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.
>
> --
> Adrian Klaver
> adrian(dot)klaver(at)gmail(dot)com
>

Yup that's exactly what I did.. I'm on 10.04, which doesn't have
libuuid 1.6 in the software repository, go figure..

I greatly appreciate everyone's help..