“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 may have found the correct walkthrough to get this working.

This is from the page HERE and is not what I came up with myself. Though I did add the VC_redist x86/x64 downloads to the list.

Let me add that I started the update .exe file in run as administrator so you may want to as well.

I got it to work - when it asks you to locate "preparation.exe" or "kb2703187.msp":

1.Open Chrome NOT Internet Explorer - for some @#$*! reason IE doesn't work (at least for me). Though it worked for me in IE11 - Stealthrt

2.Download the file from one (or all) of the links below --> to a "known folder":

preparation.exe --> HERE

kb2703187.msp --> HERE

VC_redist.x64.exe --> HERE

VC_redist.x86.exe --> HERE

Now, go back to the installer and browse to the "known folder" to locate the file you just downloaded

Downloading these files and selecting it in the Please provide a location.. box worked fine for me. I had to reference all 4 files above in order to get it to install.

But I did end up missing some updates: