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

• go to Microsoft Certificates
• start certmgr.ms
• open Trusted Root Certification Authorities
• check installed ms certificates with the ones in Microsoft Certificates
• download and import missing ones

This got me past the missing or corrupted packages message.