Unable to install GCC using anaconda

Question

This is output of the command conda install gcc:

    Solving environment: failed  PackagesNotFoundError: The following packages are not available from current channels:    - gcc-6 

Answer 1

I'm not sure how exactly the packages relate, but I needed to install the gcc package to resolve some sort of load error. Given that gcc didn't produce any results, I ran a quick

$ conda search gcc 

Which yielded, among other things, gcc_linux-64. After

$ conda install gcc_linux-64 

My issue went away, despite the fact that which gcc still pointed to the system install 🤷‍♂️

Answer 2

I had to install two conda packages to fix this issue:

$ conda install gcc_linux-64 $ conda install gxx_linux-64