“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 tried most of the items listed with VS 2013, VS 2015 and VS 2017 Community Edition, and all of them failed somewhere during the installation, or failed while installing Data Tools, or the Data Tools did not work correctly (SSIS VSTA Script Editor Not Displaying in VS2015). When I tried with VS 2017 Professional, the installation was seamless for Studio and for Data Tools, with Data Tools functioning correctly at the end.