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uuencode is in sharutils:

(example, for Red Hat, ...)

Code:

# yum whatprovides */uuencode 
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sharutils-4.6.1-2.x86_64 : The GNU shar utilities for packaging and unpackaging shell archives.
Repo        : base
Matched from:
Filename    : /usr/bin/uuencode

Code:

# yum install sharutils

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