The install of visualstudio2022buildtools was NOT successful

[MartinBouchery]

With latest version, installing visualstudio2022buildtools gives:

ERROR: After update operation, Visual Studio product: [installPath = 'C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\BuildTools'] is at version 17.14.36616.10, which is lower than the desired version (17.14.36623.8). This means the update failed.

[MartinBouchery]

This eventually got fixed last week, but today it fails again with
WARNING: Errors/warnings from the Visual Studio Installer log file C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\Temp\chocolatey\dd_installer_20251119160555.log: WARNING: [165c:000d][2025-11-19T16:06:00] Warning: No previous catalog found at 'C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\VisualStudio\Packages\_Instances\4e1d3eeb\catalog.previous.json' WARNING: [165c:000d][2025-11-19T16:06:01] Warning: Didn't find any channel feed. WARNING: [165c:0011][2025-11-19T16:06:03] Warning: Shutting down the application with exit code 1 WARNING: [165c:0011][2025-11-19T16:06:03] Warning: Visual Studio cannot be installed to a nonempty directory 'C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\BuildTools'. WARNING: [165c:0001][2025-11-19T16:06:03] Warning: Didn't find any channel feed. WARNING: [165c:0001][2025-11-19T16:06:04] Warning: Didn't find any channel feed. WARNING: [165c:0017][2025-11-19T16:06:04] Warning: Didn't find any channel feed. ERROR: The installation of visualstudio2022buildtools failed (installer exit code: 1). The install of visualstudio2022buildtools was NOT successful. Error while running 'C:\ProgramData\chocolatey\lib\visualstudio2022buildtools\tools\ChocolateyInstall.ps1'. See log for details.

[jberezanski]

Warning: Visual Studio cannot be installed to a nonempty directory 'C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\BuildTools

If this happened during upgrade, then it seems your existing Build Tools installation was not detected correctly and the install script attempted to install a new Build Tools instance rather than update the existing one (these are two different code paths, because the VS installer needs to be called in a different way). The full chocolatey log would be needed to attempt to diagnose it any further.

[kintrupf]

With latest version, installing visualstudio2022buildtools gives:

ERROR: After update operation, Visual Studio product: [installPath = 'C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\BuildTools'] is at version 17.14.36616.10, which is lower than the desired version (17.14.36623.8). This means the update failed.

This error raises its ugly head again and again 🙄
Right now the update from 118.5.0 to 118.5.2 fails on two systems with the message:
ERROR: After update operation, Visual Studio product: [installPath = 'C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\18\BuildTools'] is at version 18.5.11709.299, which is lower than the desired version (18.5.11723.231). This means the update failed. The upgrade of visualstudio2026buildtools was NOT successful. Error while running 'C:\ProgramData\chocolatey\lib\visualstudio2026buildtools\tools\ChocolateyInstall.ps1'. See log for details.

Maybe the post-update version check is a little bit too strict?