Could not install Visual Studio Build Tools.

[Apurva-Dhok]

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PS C:\Windows\system32> npm

Usage: npm

where is one of:
access, adduser, audit, bin, bugs, c, cache, ci, cit,
clean-install, clean-install-test, completion, config,
create, ddp, dedupe, deprecate, dist-tag, docs, doctor,
edit, explore, fund, get, help, help-search, hook, i, init,
install, install-ci-test, install-test, it, link, list, ln,
login, logout, ls, org, outdated, owner, pack, ping, prefix,
profile, prune, publish, rb, rebuild, repo, restart, root,
run, run-script, s, se, search, set, shrinkwrap, star,
stars, start, stop, t, team, test, token, tst, un,
uninstall, unpublish, unstar, up, update, v, version, view,
whoami

npm -h quick help on
npm -l display full usage info
npm help search for help on
npm help npm involved overview

Specify configs in the ini-formatted file:
C:\Users\apurv.npmrc
or on the command line via: npm --key value
Config info can be viewed via: npm help config

npm@6.14.10 C:\Program Files\nodejs\node_modules\npm
PS C:\Windows\system32> npm install --global windows-build-tools
npm WARN deprecated request@2.88.2: request has been deprecated, see request/request#3142
npm WARN deprecated har-validator@5.1.5: this library is no longer supported

windows-build-tools@5.2.2 postinstall C:\Users\apurv\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\windows-build-tools
node ./dist/index.js

Downloading python-2.7.15.amd64.msi
[============================================>] 100.0% of 20.25 MB (920.3 kB/s)
Downloaded python-2.7.15.amd64.msi. Saved to C:\Users\apurv.windows-build-tools\python-2.7.15.amd64.msi.
Downloading vs_BuildTools.exe
[============================================>] 100.0% of 1.12 MB (1.12 MB/s)
Downloaded vs_BuildTools.exe. Saved to C:\Users\apurv.windows-build-tools\vs_BuildTools.exe.

Starting installation...
Launched installers, now waiting for them to finish.
This will likely take some time - please be patient!

Status from the installers:
---------- Visual Studio Build Tools ----------
at SetupEngineAdapter.handleServiceHubError (C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\Installer\resources\app\main\StubMain.js:4:377194)
at
at process._tickCallback (internal/process/next_tick.js:188:7)
2021-04-07T15:32:44 : Error : A product matching the following parameters cannot be found: channelId: VisualStudio.15.Release productId: Microsoft.VisualStudio.Product.BuildTools
2021-04-07T15:32:44 : Verbose : Closing installer. Return code: 1.
------------------- Python --------------------
Successfully installed Python 2.7

Could not install Visual Studio Build Tools.
Please find more details in the log files, which can be found at
C:\Users\apurv.windows-build-tools

Now configuring Python...

All done!

• windows-build-tools@5.2.2
  added 147 packages from 102 contributors in 161.287s
  PS C:\Windows\system32>

what shall I do?

[karlhorky]

Another option is to try installing the build tools via Chocolatey instead (use an Administrator command line):

choco install python visualstudio2017-workload-vctools -y
npm config set msvs_version 2017

Maybe this should be documented in the readme as an alternative...