Joakim Karlsson added the comment: I got this working on a Windows 8.1 box with the following mess. Hopefully someone more capable than me can piece together a viable fix from this.
I downloaded and executed the Visual C++ Redistributable for VS 2015 here: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=48145 I then watched that installation fail with the same error as in the python installer. >From the steps described here: http://stackoverflow.com/a/31536998 1. Copy the file "C:\ProgramData\Package Cache\FC6260C33678BB17FB8B88536C476B4015B7C5E9\packages\Patch\x64\Windows8.1-KB2999226-x64.msu" to c:\temp\ (Note: the guid in the path above is not the same as in the stack overflow answer. It seems it may vary) 2. From an elevated (important!) command prompt: >cd c:\temp >mkdir extracted >wusa.exe Windows8.1-KB2999226-x64.msu /extract:extracted (Make sure files are extracted to the new dir) >dism.exe /Online /Add-Package >/PackagePath:extracted\Windows8.1-KB2999226-x64.cab 3. Run vc_redist.x64.exe again, and choose repair 4. Now, I could finally install Python (3.5.1) ---------- nosy: +Joakim.Karlsson _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue25157> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
