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

Question

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

A Setup Package i

Answer 1

I was facing the same problem. First I tried the online installation and faced above problem, then I tried to install VS2015 from ISO but it was also giving an error saying "Product version which is higher than what you are trying to install is already installed in the device". I read many post on this but none of them had solved my issue. Finally I went to control panel and uninstalled a Visual studio Updater program. Then offline installation worked for me.

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

This was a problem with Visual Studio's web installer between mid-afternoon PST of Sep 4th through 11:30am on Sep 8th (also PST) which has now been fixed on our end.

Specifically, we were running a clean-up script on past pre-release web-installers for Visual Studio, but the script got too aggressive and deleted vcredist_x86.exe even though the RTM product still needed that particular package. Once we realized the error, we re-published and re-mapped that package so that web installs should now work correctly.

The other workarounds (download the ISO + install vcredist_x86.exe manually) should still be fine answers, but anybody else reading this now shouldn't need to worry about those workarounds.

And last, we're examining our internal policies and procedures to try and avoid this kind of broad mistake in the future.

EricKn, Visual Studio Engineering Manager

Answer 4

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.

Answer 5

I was having similar problems and the following solution worked for me:

Run the installer executable with administrator rights (right click on installer exe 'Run as administrator') and proceed with the installation as normal.

Answer 6

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.