The easiest method is to install the package build-essential.

build-essential contains a list of packages which are essential for building Ubuntu packages including gcc compiler, make and other required tools.

Now do the following steps.

$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get upgrade
$ sudo apt-get install build-essential
$ gcc -v
$ make -v

Now, you can compile C / C++ programs.

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