“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 problem with installing VS 2015 Community. In my case the solution was to download the offline installer (ISO image, ~3,7 GB), mount the image and run vs_community.exe with administrative rights.

Answer 2

I solved the specific issue of missing or corrupted redistributables by doing the following:

• copy the following certificate: http://www.microsoft.com/pki/certs/MicRooCerAut2011_2011_03_22.crt
• start certmgr.msc, and install into Trusted Root Certification Authorities

This got me past the missing or corrupted packages message. It now fails on a similar problem for Team Explorer. Have not found solution for that yet...