Problem installing build-essential in Ubuntu

Question

I'm trying to install build-essential but Ubuntu cannot find it.

ruchir@ubuntu:~$ sudo apt-get install build-essential
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
E: Couldn't find package build-essential

Answer 1

Try updating first

sudo apt-get update

and then try to install it

sudo apt-get install build-essential