Mavericks cant be installed???

Hey,
I currently am running OS X 10.7.5. I just now went to the app store to upgrade to Mavericks and it tells me it "cannot be installed on this computer".
I do indeed meet the system requirements. HELP!!!
Thanks

Thanks for the response.
Yes 50gb free and 8gb of ram currently 3.5 free 2 inactive and the rest is used at the moment.
Also I did just double check and I am 110% positive I should be able to install
Screenshot of the system info plus it has a 500GB hard drive with 50GB free

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