C++ gcc error

[Chicken Dinner]

I am having trouble with gcc. I tried making a "hello world" program in Vim, and I received an error when I tried to compile it with this code (which I found on the internet).

gcc -Wall -o foo ubuntu.cpp

Ubuntu is the name of the file.
After entering it after a colon (Ex: mode), this is the error I receive.

gcc: error trying to exec 'cc1plus': execvp: No such file or directory

Does gcc not come with everything to compile C++ code? If anyone can help me that far, I also haven't a clue how to run the program after its compiled, so any help with that would be great too. I'm an absolute beginner so any answers will be helpful.

Thank you.

[Sef]

Have you installed build-essetial?

Applications > Accessories > Terminal


sudo apt-get update


sudo apt-get install build-essential

[Monicker]

I believe you will need to use g++. If do not already have it, install the build-essential package.

[Dougie187]

I think you do need g++ for c++ code, but for a simple hello world program you shouldnt need c++ really.

[Chicken Dinner]

Well now I feel stupid! I could've sworn I installed g++, but apparently not. Thanks for the help. That would've taken hours for me to figure out.

[Oldsoldier2003]

Well now I feel stupid! I could've sworn I installed g++, but apparently not. Thanks for the help. That would've taken hours for me to figure out.
the compiler tools are not installed in a default ubuntu installation, its been the subject of quite a few spirited discussions :)