Error in rstudio : libuuid.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Question

I installed RStudio version 0.98.507 and my R version is 2.14.1. My OS is ubuntu 12.04. When I try to start RStudio from the terminal I get the following error:

rstudio: error while loading shared libraries: libuuid.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

How do I solve this?

Answer 1

apt-get install libuuid1

This command will not resolve the problem, if you are running 32 bit executable on 64 bit Ubuntu. Need to install 32 bit version of libuuid1 with `i386' suffix.

apt-get install libuuid1:i386

Answer 2

Try

sudo apt-get install libuuid1

Answer 3

Maybe you have some dependencies and, in fact, not completely installed.

When I tried to install, I got the following error:

dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of rstudio:
 rstudio depends on libjpeg62; however:
  Package libjpeg62 is not installed.

So I simply installed the dependency via apt-get:

sudo apt-get install libjpeg62

And then installed the rstudio:

sudo dpkg -i rstudio-<your_version>-amd64.deb