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

    windows 10.0.14393visual studio 2017 installer rcFixed-in: Visual Studio 2017 version 15.0

    avatar image Gascogne reported Nov 23, 2016 at 05:31 PM

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

    Here is the file that was requested. vslogs.zip

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