“A Setup Package is either missing or damaged” err

Question

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.

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 1

I had the same issue with Visual Studio Express 2015, but was able to install after ran all the updates to Visual Studio Express 2012.

Answer 2

I have window 7, downloaded Visual Studio Enterprise 2015 With Update 2 exe installer. It had the same issue as this post at beginning when running the installer as Administrator - "Run as administrator". It was installed fine second time by just double clicking on the installer - run as a user, and the installer prompted the user to enter administrator's credential, enter the credential, then installed successfully.

Answer 3

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.

Answer 4

Run as administrator and just keep clicking download from internet. I had to click it 50 times or so and EVENTUALLY it completes. (5-7 clicks per package)

Answer 5

I also had this problem. But I noticed that the problem occured only when I opened a new user ( not admin ). I made the user admin and it worked fine. You should try it, I think that is the sollution to your problem.

Answer 6

I have solved the issue just installed the missing setup manually. Track out which one is showing missing or damaged then search same one in the setup folder and manually install during that main installation. Note:- Don't cancel the main setup after mannual installation please select the Skip option and then continue.