title: gcc: error trying to exec 'cc1plus': execvp: No such file or directory
body: <p>I'm trying to install this python module, which requires compilation (on Ubuntu 16.04). I'm struggling to understand exactly what's causing it stall; what am I missing?</p>
  
  <pre><code>(xenial)chris@localhost:~$ pip install swigibpy
  Collecting swigibpy
    Using cached swigibpy-0.4.1.tar.gz
  Building wheels for collected packages: swigibpy
    Running setup.py bdist_wheel for swigibpy ... error
    Complete output from command /home/chris/anaconda3/bin/python -u -c "import setuptools, tokenize;__file__='/tmp/pip-build-162vhh_i/swigibpy/setup.py';exec(compile(getattr(tokenize, 'open', open)(__file__).read().replace('\r\n', '\n'), __file__, 'exec'))" bdist_wheel -d /tmp/tmptqb6ctskpip-wheel- --python-tag cp35:
    running bdist_wheel
    running build
    running build_py
    creating build
    creating build/lib.linux-x86_64-3.5
    copying swigibpy.py -&gt; build/lib.linux-x86_64-3.5
    running build_ext
    building '_swigibpy' extension
    creating build/temp.linux-x86_64-3.5
    creating build/temp.linux-x86_64-3.5/IB
    creating build/temp.linux-x86_64-3.5/IB/PosixSocketClient
    gcc -pthread -Wsign-compare -DNDEBUG -g -fwrapv -O3 -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -fPIC -DIB_USE_STD_STRING=1 -IIB -IIB/PosixSocketClient -IIB/Shared -I/home/chris/anaconda3/include/python3.5m -c IB/PosixSocketClient/EClientSocketBase.cpp -o build/temp.linux-x86_64-3.5/IB/PosixSocketClient/EClientSocketBase.o -Wno-switch
    gcc: error trying to exec 'cc1plus': execvp: No such file or directory
    error: command 'gcc' failed with exit status 1
  
    ----------------------------------------
    Failed building wheel for swigibpy
    Running setup.py clean for swigibpy
  Failed to build swigibpy
  Installing collected packages: swigibpy
    Running setup.py install for swigibpy ... error
      Complete output from command /home/chris/anaconda3/bin/python -u -c "import setuptools, tokenize;__file__='/tmp/pip-build-162vhh_i/swigibpy/setup.py';exec(compile(getattr(tokenize, 'open', open)(__file__).read().replace('\r\n', '\n'), __file__, 'exec'))" install --record /tmp/pip-yv9u0wok-record/install-record.txt --single-version-externally-managed --compile:
      running install
      running build
      running build_py
      creating build
      creating build/lib.linux-x86_64-3.5
      copying swigibpy.py -&gt; build/lib.linux-x86_64-3.5
      running build_ext
      building '_swigibpy' extension
      creating build/temp.linux-x86_64-3.5
      creating build/temp.linux-x86_64-3.5/IB
      creating build/temp.linux-x86_64-3.5/IB/PosixSocketClient
      gcc -pthread -Wsign-compare -DNDEBUG -g -fwrapv -O3 -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -fPIC -DIB_USE_STD_STRING=1 -IIB -IIB/PosixSocketClient -IIB/Shared -I/home/chris/anaconda3/include/python3.5m -c IB/PosixSocketClient/EClientSocketBase.cpp -o build/temp.linux-x86_64-3.5/IB/PosixSocketClient/EClientSocketBase.o -Wno-switch
      gcc: error trying to exec 'cc1plus': execvp: No such file or directory
      error: command 'gcc' failed with exit status 1
  
      ----------------------------------------
  Command "/home/chris/anaconda3/bin/python -u -c "import setuptools, tokenize;__file__='/tmp/pip-build-162vhh_i/swigibpy/setup.py';exec(compile(getattr(tokenize, 'open', open)(__file__).read().replace('\r\n', '\n'), __file__, 'exec'))" install --record /tmp/pip-yv9u0wok-record/install-record.txt --single-version-externally-managed --compile" failed with error code 1 in /tmp/pip-build-162vhh_i/swigibpy/
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