python - Module not found error in PyCharm , but it is installed as Anaconda package

Question

I have installed Anaconda 3 and PyCharm CE after that. I am able to chose the interpreter to be Conda environment. But when I try using certain packages such as matplotlib it throws "Module not found error". When I run pip it returns saying that matplotlib is available.

pip install matplotlib
Requirement already satisfied: matplotlib in./anaconda3/lib/python3.6/site-packages

Clearly the package is there and for some reason it does not show up.

Answer 1

Found the solution. Went to Pycharm --> Preferences --> Python Interpreter

selected "existing interpreter" and pointed to ~/anaconda3/bin/python

Finally now all the packages installed with Anaconda3 are loaded.