# Problem instralling gems

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/problem-instralling-gems/131663>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [March 12, 2008, 10:28am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/problem-instralling-gems/131663 "2008-03-12T10:28:19Z")\
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**Post date:** [March 12, 2008, 10:28am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/problem-instralling-gems/131663/1 "2008-03-12T10:28:19Z")

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I have problems installing gems on my ubuntu 7.04 machine. i haver  
installed ruby 1.8.6 and rubygems 1.0.x. I am directly connected to  
internet. When i try to install the gems , it throes some wierd errors  
sucha as:

ERROR: While executing gem … (Gem::RemoteFetcher::FetchError)  
No route to host - connect(2) (Errno::EHOSTUNREACH)  
getting size of [http://gems.rubyforge.org/Marshal.4.8](http://gems.rubyforge.org/Marshal.4.8)  
the reason , i couldnt figure out .

Now i downloaded the gem from “[http://rubyforge.vm.bytemark.co.uk/gems/](http://rubyforge.vm.bytemark.co.uk/gems/)”  
and again tried to install the gem moving to that directory. The same is  
thrownup this time…what could be the obvious error? any  
help/suggestions greatly appreciated…

ragards,  
venkat