diff --git a/contrib/scripts/install_prereq b/contrib/scripts/install_prereq
index 11d2a40e82..22fb3f79ef 100755
--- a/contrib/scripts/install_prereq
+++ b/contrib/scripts/install_prereq
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ usage() {
 # Basic build system:
 PACKAGES_DEBIAN="build-essential"
 # Asterisk: basic requirements:
-PACKAGES_DEBIAN="$PACKAGES_DEBIAN libncurses-dev libz-dev libssl-dev libxml2-dev libsqlite3-dev uuid-dev"
+PACKAGES_DEBIAN="$PACKAGES_DEBIAN libncurses-dev libz-dev libssl-dev libxml2-dev libsqlite3-dev uuid-dev uuid"
 # Asterisk: for addons:
 PACKAGES_DEBIAN="$PACKAGES_DEBIAN libcurl-dev libspeex-dev libspeexdsp-dev libogg-dev libvorbis-dev libasound2-dev portaudio19-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev"
 PACKAGES_DEBIAN="$PACKAGES_DEBIAN libpq-dev unixodbc-dev libsqlite0-dev libmysqlclient15-dev libneon27-dev libgmime-dev libusb-dev liblua5.1-0-dev lua5.1"