diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index f641fc9..96ab209 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -141,7 +141,7 @@ You need a current version of libmosquitto (and you probably require the Mosquit
 On Debian, you can install the needed packages with:
 
 ```
-apt-get install build-essential linux-headers-$(uname -r) libcurl4-openssl-dev libmosquitto-dev liblua5.2-dev libsodium-dev libconfig-dev
+apt-get install build-essential linux-headers-$(uname -r) libcurl4-openssl-dev libmosquitto-dev liblua5.2-dev libsodium-dev libconfig-dev uuid-dev
 ```
 
 On CentOS 7:
@@ -158,7 +158,7 @@ On Ubuntu:
 ```
 sudo apt-add-repository ppa:mosquitto-dev/mosquitto-ppa
 sudo apt-get update
-sudo apt-get install libmosquitto-dev libcurl3 libcurl4-openssl-dev libconfig-dev liblmdb-dev
+sudo apt-get install libmosquitto-dev libcurl3 libcurl4-openssl-dev libconfig-dev liblmdb-dev uuid-dev
 ```
 
 #### Building
diff --git a/config.mk.in b/config.mk.in
index a544d08..25fdb3c 100644
--- a/config.mk.in
+++ b/config.mk.in
@@ -91,7 +91,7 @@ CONFIGFILE = /etc/default/ot-recorder
 # Optionally specify the path to the Mosquitto libs, include here
 MOSQUITTO_INC = -I/usr/include
 MOSQUITTO_LIB = -L/usr/lib
-MORELIBS += # -lssl
+MORELIBS += # -luuid -lssl
 
 # Milliseconds (ms) timeout for reverse geocoding
 GEOCODE_TIMEOUT = 4000