How Do You Install Apache Web Server on Your Ubuntu Server when You Receive an Error about “no installation candidate”?

Problem scenario
You tried this command: sudo apt-get install httpd
But you got this error message as a result:

"...E: Package 'httpd' has no installation candidate"

You tried this command as root:  

apt-get install apache2-bin 2.4.7-1ubuntu4.13

But you get this error message as a result:

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package 2.4.7-1ubuntu4.13
E: Couldn't find any package by regex '2.4.7-1ubuntu4.13'

How do you install Apache web server on your Ubuntu server?

Solution
Run this command:  sudo apt-get -y install apache2-bin

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