Lion not installing even with Snow Leopard

im having a problem installing Lion osx on my mac mini .
the mini meets all requirements ..
Snow Leopard 10.6.8
1.83 Core 2 Duo
2 gig of ddr2 sdram @ 667 mhz
with over 200 gig of empty hard drive space
and everytime i try to install Lion
it just simply says . this software can't be installed on this machine
any ideas guys ???
thanks for all the help in advance ...... Jim .......

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