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

Question

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?

(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 -> 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 -> 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/

Answer 1

The following worked for me:

sudo apt-get install g++

Answer 2

The routine commands that saved me time after time for such errors:

sudo apt update
sudo apt upgrade
sudo apt install gcc python3-dev python3-pip libxml2-dev libxslt1-dev zlib1g-dev g++

Hope it works.

Answer 3

This link helped me to fix this issue.

You need to run below command to get g++ installed

yum install gcc-c++

Answer 4

That helped me to build Python greenlet on Docker alpine

apk add g++