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Originally Posted by JustinThought
It appears that Visual Studio runtime is a very jealous program--it doesn't want to install on top of previous versions.
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That's as it should be, actually (well sort of). The 2015 vc++ runtime will not overwrite a newer version of itself if present. It will (or should) install over previous versions. At least that's the way Microsoft says it supposed to work.
The Sigil installer tests to to see if the version of the 2015 runtime included is already installed. If it is, no attempt to install the 2015 vc++ runtime will be made. If a newer version of the 2015 vc++ runtime is already installed, the installer included with Sigil will launch, but should silently fail.
If that's not what's happening, I'll have to do some investigation.
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Originally Posted by JustinThought
I did uninstall the 6 or so previous versions that were hanging around on my laptop,
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Since there hasn't been more than 3 or so versions of the 2015 vc++ runtime released (version 14.xxx). I'm going to assume you uninstalled earlier editions of MS's runtime (v12, 11, etc...). That's not a good idea. You may have programs installed which rely on those others. It's common for the 2008, 2010, 2012, 2013, 2015 runtimes to be Installed on the same machine, in fact, it's quite necessary depending on the applications installed.