"A Setup Package is either missing or damaged" error while installing Visual Studio 2015 on Windows 10

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Vadim Gremyachev picture Vadim Gremyachev · Sep 7, 2015 · Viewed 79.8k times · Source

During the installation of Visual Studio 2015 Community on Windows 10 the following error occurred for me:

A Setup Package is either missing or damaged.

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Since vcredist_x86.exe and vcredist_x64.exe files correspond to Visual C++ Redistributable Packages for Visual Studio 2013, I provided a location to packages after downloading them (third option on the screenshot). After that the installation went smoothly.

So the question:

are Visual C++ Redistributable Packages for Visual Studio 2013 required for installing of Visual Studio 2015, is there any prerequisites for installing of Visual Studio 2015 on Windows 10, may be i'm missing something obvious?

Answer

Mike Gledhill picture Mike Gledhill · Aug 22, 2016

Just to say, it's now August 2016, and this problem is still alive and kicking (it wasn't just a problem with one specific build of VS2015).

For me, I ended up having to install VS2015 on a train, and using up my entire mobile phone's 2Gb monthly data allowance, as although it claimed only one package was corrupted, it ended up re-acquiring everything.

Oh, and then it got stuck whilst trying to install the packages. Giving up on the install, and rebooting my laptop actually got it started again.

So, short answer: the VS2015 installer still isn't particularly stable.

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