I can't install Autodesk Inventor Professional 2015

[thatguy164]

I click the "Install Now" button and download the sytem installer. Choose "Install on this computer" and follow the prompts untill it gives me a list of things it is going to install, I click the "install" button and it says "34 of 35 remaining" for a brief second and then immediately it says "Installation complete. Some products failed to install" and I get thi  list of the things that failed to install. I made sure that I meet and exceed all the system requirements and turned off the firewall.

Prior to these occurences I was able install things properly and it was going smoothly and it said that it would take about 4 hours to finish. So I clicked on another tab and went to my browser while the installer did it's thing. But immediately when I clicked away from it the installer failed and only installed 2 or 3 things. Since then I haven't been able to make any sort of progress to install the other 35 things because everything fails to install

[philip.s]

Hello!

Any chance that you could attach your install log so that we could see what's going on?

Location of the log files generated by the installation of an Autodesk product

[ampster402]

not that this will help the issue now, but I'd be weary of using any pc while a major program is being installed on it.  Just let it sit and do it's thing. 

You mentioned opening your browser - I'm assuming Internet browser.

[thatguy164]

Ok I think I found the logs you were looking for. I don't know which one you wanted specifically but here are the ones that I found.

Thanks

[thatguy164]

yes it was the internet browser. But how does that affect what's being installed on it?

[DannyHubbard · Accepted solution]

The install is failing when trying to install the Microsoft Visual C++ 2012 Redistributable. Go to Control Panel and Uninstall a Program and uninstall the existing Microsoft Visual C++ 2012 Redistributables, then reboot and try installing Inventor again.

Thanks,

Danny

[thatguy164]

thank you very much! Once I uninstalled that everything was working fine. Sometimes it would fail after downloading a few programs but then I just closed the window and did the installation process again and it would pick up where it left off. I had to do this about 4 times but I did finally get everything installed.

Thanks again

thatguy164

[ampster402]

I've been not reading the info at the beginning of any Adesk software installs for so long now it's time I pay attention again, curious if it contains anything of what I will mention;

When installing most software, there is some sort of blurb or text statement to the effect that you should not be running any programs when installing software.

Just a good habit to practice.