# Gems problem

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/gems-problem/96005>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [June 22, 2006, 10:24am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/gems-problem/96005 "2006-06-22T10:24:28Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![Kev\_J](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/2bfe46/32.png) [@Kev\_J](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Kev_J)\
**Post date:** [June 22, 2006, 10:24am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/gems-problem/96005/1 "2006-06-22T10:24:28Z")

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Hi all,

I cannot get gem install x to work at all.

[Spikefish:/Users/web] root# gem install rubyzip  
Attempting local installation of ‘rubyzip’  
Local gem file not found: rubyzip\*.gem  
Attempting remote installation of ‘rubyzip’  
Updating Gem source index for: [http://gems.rubyforge.org](http://gems.rubyforge.org)  
/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/timeout.rb:42:in `rbuf_fill': execution expired (Timeout::Error) from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/net/protocol.rb:196:in `timeout’  
from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/timeout.rb:55:in `timeout' from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/net/protocol.rb:196:in `rbuf\_fill’  
from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/net/protocol.rb:160:in `readuntil' from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/net/protocol.rb:171:in `readline’  
from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/net/http.rb:1554:in `read_status_line' from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/net/http.rb:1538:in `read\_new’  
from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/net/http.rb:833:in `request' ... 25 levels... from /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/cmd_manager.rb: 92:in `process\_args’  
from /usr/lib/ruby/site\_ruby/1.8/rubygems/cmd\_manager.rb:  
65:in `run' from /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/gem_runner.rb:9:in `run’  
from /usr/bin/gem:17  
[Spikefish:/Users/web] root#

I’ve never had a problem previously, the only thing that may be  
affecting it is that I’m currently checking out a large amount of  
source files from a remote svn repo, but other network apps are fine  
(web/mail/im/svn etc).

Any ideas? Is the gem server down?

Thanks  
Kev

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**Author:** ![Kev\_J](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/2bfe46/32.png) [@Kev\_J](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Kev_J)\
**Post date:** [June 22, 2006, 10:34am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/gems-problem/96005/2 "2006-06-22T10:34:11Z")

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That seems like a network problem, possibly from RubyForge. Can you  
download the gem to your machine and install it locally?