[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 108580] Cannot run LibreOffice, api-ms-win-crt-runtime-l1-1-0.dll is missing ( for local solution see comment 7)

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=108580

--- Comment #13 from Ted Mittelstaedt <tedm at mittelstaedt.us> ---
People I am SO NOT AMUSED here at all.  While you are blathering around on this
the installation instructions on the website say that Libreoffice has a
dependency on VC 2008 C++ not VC 2015 C++ Update 3.   Do you what to know how
much time I've already wasted installing various C++ redistributables before
stumbling over this bug, trying to get the program to work on a brand new fresh
installation of Vista?  I finally tried uninstalling LO before reading this and
now it won't reinstall at all whether or not the correct runtime is installed. 
And by the way MS has _2_ 2015 redistributables for download and of course I
tried the wrong one first.

There is no problem at all with putting a check into the LO installer looking
for the correct redistributable and telling the user to download it and install
it first then aborting the installer.   Because now, I have no choice it seems
but to do a complete nuke and repave of the machine since the uninstaller in LO
obviously got broken during the uninstallation.

Quite trying to dumbify down the LO software installer and give us some credit
for enough brains to find, download and install the correct VC++
redistributable before installing LO if you DOCUMENT THE FACT IT IS NEEDED in
the installation instructions.   I read through the install instructions first
and they just steered me wrong.   You have been waffling around on this bug for
weeks now DOCUMENT THE PREREQUISITE FIRST THEN ARGUE ABOUT IT LATER.

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