Cannot install Access 2016 runtime to a machine that has Office 2016 installed with “Click-to-Run”

A .NET/C# project I'm currently working on required me to read data from an Access database during data migration, and I wanted to use the latest Access OLEDB/ADO.NET drivers. These are part of the Microsoft Access 2016 Runtime, but it turns out you cannot install these easily onto a machine that already has Office 2016 installed.

When you try to install the runtime bits, you will get the following error message:

We found a problem!
We're sorry, Microsoft Office installer encountered a problem because
you have these Click-to-Run installer based Office programs installed
on your computer:

	Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2016 - en-us

Windows Installer and Click-to-Run editions of Office programs don't get
along for this version, so you can only have one type installed at a time.
Please try installing the Click-to-Run edition of Office instead, or
uninstall your other Click-to-Run based Office programs and try this
installation again.

I haven't checked whether this could be actually circumvented, as I have another easy solution: just fire up a new virtual machine which doesn't have Office 2016 installed, and install the runtime there.

Or, alternatively, revert back one Access runtime version, say, to 2013, and install the runtime from that version.

Hope this helps!