# install paraview with uuid error
**URL:** https://discourse.paraview.org/t/install-paraview-with-uuid-error/687
**Category:** ParaView Support
**Created:** [October 5, 2018, 9:14pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/install-paraview-with-uuid-error/687 "2018-10-05T21:14:38Z")
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### Author:  [@Dawei\_Mu](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/Dawei_Mu)
#### Post date: [October 5, 2018, 9:14pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/install-paraview-with-uuid-error/687/1 "2018-10-05T21:14:38Z")
I am trying to install the Paraview-5.6RC2 on ubuntu1604 from source code. The installation seems went well till the end.
[100%] Linking CXX executable …/…/bin/paraview
/usr/lib/x86\_64-linux-gnu/libSM.so: undefined reference to `uuid_generate@UUID_1.0' /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libSM.so: undefined reference to`uuid\_unparse\_lower@UUID\_1.0’
Could someone guide me what should I do ?
Thank you in advance.
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### Author:  [@Antech](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/Antech)
#### Post date: [October 9, 2018, 12:24pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/install-paraview-with-uuid-error/687/2 "2018-10-09T12:24:50Z")
Hello. An error itself suggests that there is a compatibility problem with your system’s libSM.so (X11 related) library (there is a function that cannot be found in this library).
Your distribution is quite new so I think that only developers will give you the correct answer (on old distributions there may be just missing/incompatible-arguments functions in old libraries so you can solve the problem with updating your OS). But if you only need the standard ParaView, you can use official binary version from ParaView site (compiling usually needed for non-standard use-cases like Catalyst).
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### Author:  [@Haocheng\_Liu](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/Haocheng_Liu)
#### Post date: [October 9, 2018, 1:11pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/install-paraview-with-uuid-error/687/3 "2018-10-09T13:11:00Z")
> [@Dawei\_Mu](#):
>
> I am trying to install the Paraview-5.6RC2 on ubuntu1604 from source code. The installation seems went well till the end.
>
> [100%] Linking CXX executable …/…/bin/paraview
> /usr/lib/x86\_64-linux-gnu/libSM.so: undefined reference to `uuid_generate@UUID_1.0' /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libSM.so: undefined reference to` uuid\_unparse\_lower@UUID\_1.0’
What’s the result of `objdump -a -x /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libSM.so | grep UUID_1` from terminal?
Ubuntu 16.04 should be fine since several developers are using it. What’s your build configuration btw?
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### Author:  [@Dawei\_Mu](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/Dawei_Mu)
#### Post date: [October 12, 2018, 1:55am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/install-paraview-with-uuid-error/687/5 "2018-10-12T01:55:11Z")
Thank you for your help, this is the one I got from the machine.
user@viz:~/Workspaces/ParaView/BUILD$ objdump -a -x /usr/lib/x86\_64-linux-gnu/libSM.so | grep UUID\_1
0x09da27b0 0x00 05 UUID\_1.0