erlang-uuid software package provides UUID generator for Erlang, you can install in your Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus) by running the commands given below on the terminal,
$ sudo apt-get update $ sudo apt-get install erlang-uuid
erlang-uuid is installed in your system.
Make ensure the erlang-uuid package were installed using the commands given below,
$ sudo dpkg-query -l | grep erlang-uuid *
You will get with erlang-uuid package name, version, architecture and description in a table
| Distro | Ubuntu 16 04 lts xenial xerus |
| Section | Development |
| Package | erlang-uuid |
| Version | 0.4.6-1 |
| Description | UUID generator for Erlang |
| Sub Section | Devel |