During a ESP 5.3 multi node installation we were getting error.
The required C/C++ runtime libraries are not installed on host 'RSEARCH04.dev.nordstrom.com'. Please install the 'Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 Redistributable Package' (SP1 or newer) available from http://www.microsoft.com/downloads
When we checked machine we found that its already installed
On sever 2008 we had C++ 2008 (Version 9) was installed but our requirements states we need version 8 of the Visual C++ runtime libraries so we installed C++ 2005
After that installation went fine.