"No Installation Candidate" when trying to install build-essential

apt-get install build-essential fails with the following errors:

~$ sudo apt-get install build-essential
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Package build-essential is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source

E: Package 'build-essential' has no installation candidate

I had just run sudo apt-get update before trying this install.

The folder /etc/apt/sources.list.d is empty. Here's the meat of /etc/apt/sources.list:

$ grep deb\ http: /etc/apt/sources.list  #(with "deb http://" deleted)  
us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ raring main restricted  
us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ raring-updates main restricted  
us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ raring universe  
us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ raring-updates universe  
us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ raring multiverse  
us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ raring-updates multiverse  
us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ raring-backports main restricted universe multiverse  
security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu raring-security main restricted  
security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu raring-security universe  
security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu raring-security multiverse  
extras.ubuntu.com/ubuntu raring main  

This with ubuntu 13.04 64 bit.

apt-cache policy build-essential 
build-essential:
 Installed: (none)
 Candidate: (none)
 Version table: 

The directory /etc/apt/sources.list.d is empty.

Solution 1:

Problem solved. In Ubuntu Software Center >> Edit >> Software Sources, I changed the server to Main Server and then run sudo apt-get update. Then sudo apt-get install build-essential which worked.

Solution 2:

With Command Line

If you want to solve this annoying problem using the command line. You should edit the file /etc/apt/source.list.

Add the line deb http://cz.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic main. Replacing cz.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu with the mirror in question, depending on your geographical position, if your distribution is bionic. If not, put in the right one.