# I cannot install gem

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/i-cannot-install-gem/166875>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [April 30, 2009, 12:40pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/i-cannot-install-gem/166875 "2009-04-30T12:40:28Z")\
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**Author:** ![9tailsfox](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/9/aeb1de/32.png) [@9tailsfox](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/9tailsfox)\
**Post date:** [April 30, 2009, 12:40pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/i-cannot-install-gem/166875/1 "2009-04-30T12:40:28Z")

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Hello dudes!!!  
I cannot install any gems. Running gem begins with “Bulk updating gem  
source indes for: [http://gems.rubyforge.org](http://gems.rubyforge.org)” and ends with  
Error: while executing gem (Timeout::Error)  
execution expired  
Is it firewall or something else?

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**Author:** ![9tailsfox](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/9/aeb1de/32.png) [@9tailsfox](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/9tailsfox)\
**Post date:** [April 30, 2009, 12:48pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/i-cannot-install-gem/166875/2 "2009-04-30T12:48:07Z")

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Dima K. wrote:

> Hello dudes!!!  
> I cannot install any gems. Running gem begins with “Bulk updating gem  
> source indes for: [http://gems.rubyforge.org](http://gems.rubyforge.org)” and ends with  
> Error: while executing gem (Timeout::Error)  
> execution expired  
> Is it firewall or something else?

I used to get that “Bulk updating” too, which made rubygems inoperable  
for me. You may have to upgrade rubygems. What is the output of this  
command:

$ gem -v

Updating rubygems is supposed to be easy, but in my case it was a long  
nightmare.

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**Author:** ![9tailsfox](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/9/aeb1de/32.png) [@9tailsfox](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/9tailsfox)\
**Post date:** [April 30, 2009, 1:57pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/i-cannot-install-gem/166875/3 "2009-04-30T13:57:25Z")

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7stud – wrote:

> I used to get that “Bulk updating” too, which made rubygems inoperable  
> for me. You may have to upgrade rubygems. What is the output of this  
> command:
> 
> $ gem -v
> 
> Updating rubygems is supposed to be easy, but in my case it was a long  
> nightmare.

I have installed gem 1.3.1, now running gem ends with  
error “no such file or directory - c:\users\дима”,though this directory  
exists.  
Do I need to put some system variable&

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**Author:** ![9tailsfox](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/9/aeb1de/32.png) [@9tailsfox](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/9tailsfox)\
**Post date:** [April 30, 2009, 12:49pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/i-cannot-install-gem/166875/4 "2009-04-30T12:49:26Z")

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Dima K. wrote:

> Hello dudes!!!  
> I cannot install any gems. Running gem begins with “Bulk updating gem  
> source indes for: [http://gems.rubyforge.org](http://gems.rubyforge.org)” and ends with  
> Error: while executing gem (Timeout::Error)  
> execution expired  
> Is it firewall or something else?

Use the gem1.8 command to install. gem searches for the repository which  
is not valid.