title: Anaconda: how to install packages not in Anaconda Directory?
body: <p>Partially related to this question [now removed from SO] but now focus solely on installing packages in Anaconda that does not exist in Anaconda directory <a href="https://anaconda.org/search?q=clp" rel="nofollow noreferrer">here</a>. An example could be the COIN-OR CLP package <a href="https://projects.coin-or.org/Clp" rel="nofollow noreferrer">here</a> that has interfaces in R <a href="https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/clpAPI/clpAPI.pdf" rel="nofollow noreferrer">here</a> and Python <a href="https://github.com/coin-or/CyLP" rel="nofollow noreferrer">here</a>. I want to make the COIN-OR CLP packages available to the Python/R clients in Anaconda.</p>
  <p><strong>What is the proper way of installing packages in Anaconda not existing in its directory?</strong></p>
  <hr />
  <p><em>Alternative 1.</em> Installation of <a href="https://anaconda.org/conda-forge/coinmp" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Coin-MP</a> containing the COIN-OR CLP but</p>
  <pre><code>$ conda install coinmp
  Fetching package metadata ...........
  
  PackageNotFoundError: Package missing in current osx-64 channels: 
    - coinmp
  </code></pre>
  <p><em>Alternative 2.</em> Installation from sources causes the error such that</p>
  <pre><code>svn co https://projects.coin-or.org/svn/CoinMP/stable/1.7 CoinMP
  cd CoinMP
  ./configure -C
  ...
  configure: WARNING: you should use --build, --host, --target
  configure: WARNING: you should use --build, --host, --target
  </code></pre>
  <p>with both COIN-MP and COIN-OR CLP.</p>