2017 RC won't install, says "Starting download/install forever"

Solution by Elliot Cooley [MSFT] · Nov 28, 2016 at 10:26 PM

Looking more closely at your errors, it appears that your package cache may be corrupt. When the installer attempts to read from the cache, it runs into a JSON error. As a workaround, you can try removing the packages from %ProgramData%\Microsoft\VisualStudio\Packages (All folders EXCEPT _Instances). That might unblock you.

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Gascogne · Nov 30, 2016 at 02:29 PM 0

Elliot Cooley [MSFT] Gascogne · Nov 30, 2016 at 06:09 PM 0

Solution by John Catenzaro - MSFT [MSFT] · May 01, 2017 at 09:53 PM

This issue has been fixed. You can download the latest version of Visual Studio via the in-product notification or from here:https://www.visualstudio.com. Thanks to everyone who provided feedback, votes and solutions for this problem.

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Solution by Gascogne · Nov 27, 2016 at 10:50 AM

Here is the file that was requested. vslogs.zip

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Blair Wang [MSFT] ♦♦ · Nov 28, 2016 at 01:32 AM 0

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