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

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...