Using sudo apt-get install build-essentials

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I was trying to use sudo apt-get install build-essentials to install the g   compiler on my Ubuntu Linux box  But it gave me the following message      Reading package lists    Done       Building dependency tree      Reading state information    Done      E  Unable to locate package build-essentials   How do I fix this problem

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Try  sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install build-essential    If I recall correctly the package name is without the extra s at the end

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In my case  simply  dropping the s  was not the problem  although it is of course a step in the right direction to use the correct package name    I had to first update the package manager indexes like this   sudo apt-get update   Then after that the installation worked fine   sudo apt-get install build-essential

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The package is called build-essential without the plural  s   So  sudo apt-get install build-essential   should do what you want

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Drop the  s  off of the package name   You want sudo apt-get install build-essential  You may also need to run sudo apt-get update to make sure that your package index is up to date   For anyone wondering why this package may be needed as part of another install  it contains the essential tools for building most other packages from source  C C   compiler  libc  and make

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To auto-generate the  source list  file I suggest to use    https   debgen simplylinux ch   Where you can select the country  the distribution    etc After that  all you need to do is to replace  take a backup of the file first  your original source list file with the generated one and do as mentioned in other answers   sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install build-essential

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I know this has been answered  but I had the same question and this is what I needed to do to resolve it  During installation  I had not added a network mirror  so I had to add information about where a repo was on the internet  To do this  I ran   sudo vi  etc apt sources list   and added the following lines   deb http   ftp debian org debian wheezy main deb-src http   ftp debian org debian wheezy main   If you need to do this  you may need to replace  wheezy  with the version of debian you re running  Afterwards  run   sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install build-essential   Hopefully this will help someone who had the same problem that I did

User · Answer

Try  build-essential  instead

[linux] Using 'sudo apt-get install build-essentials'

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