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

Question

I am getting the following error when trying to install perl's Encode::Detect module using this command

perl -MCPAN -e "install Encode::Detect"

Error message

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

Answer 1

I googled a couple of things and i found out that i don't have g++ installed even if i had the following c compliers (gcc,c,c++).

To fix this i installed g++ complier on my ubuntu machine using

apt-get install g++

On RedHat and CentOS it will be

yum install g++