# Gem install problem

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/gem-install-problem/119985>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [November 12, 2007, 6:40pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/gem-install-problem/119985 "2007-11-12T18:40:15Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![mokkai](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/c2a13f/32.png) [@mokkai](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/mokkai)\
**Post date:** [November 12, 2007, 6:40pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/gem-install-problem/119985/1 "2007-11-12T18:40:15Z")

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bcck@tom-desktop:~/packages$ gem update  
Updating installed gems…  
Bulk updating Gem source index for: [http://gems.rubyforge.org](http://gems.rubyforge.org)  
ERROR: While executing gem … (Gem::RemoteSourceException)  
Error fetching remote gem cache: SocketError reading  
[RubyGems.org | your community gem host](http://gems.rubyforge.org/yaml)  
bcck@tom-desktop:~/packages$

how to solve this error ?

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**Author:** ![mokkai](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/c2a13f/32.png) [@mokkai](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/mokkai)\
**Post date:** [November 13, 2007, 4:20pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/gem-install-problem/119985/2 "2007-11-13T16:20:51Z")

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On Tue, 2007-11-13 at 02:40 +0900, Pokkai D. wrote:

> bcck@tom-desktop:~/packages$ gem update  
> Updating installed gems…  
> Bulk updating Gem source index for: [http://gems.rubyforge.org](http://gems.rubyforge.org)  
> ERROR: While executing gem … (Gem::RemoteSourceException)  
> Error fetching remote gem cache: SocketError reading  
> [RubyGems.org | your community gem host](http://gems.rubyforge.org/yaml)  
> bcck@tom-desktop:~/packages$
> 
> how to solve this error ?

Hm, it looks like your RubyGems is fetching the uncompressed gem index -  
perhaps it’s timing out. What version of RubyGems are you using?

Yours,

tom