MacBook will not be upgrading to El Capitan - "cannot be installed on this computer.

I'm trying to upgrade a macbook to El Capitan but I get this message from the app store: "this version of Mac OS x 10.11 cannot be installed on this computer."

If I click on "Learn more" nothing happens. We just bought this macbook off ebay and it seems to have had a clean operating system installed and I just ran the update of the program, so everything is up to date.

This is a Macbook 4.1, Intel Core 2 duo 2.4 ghz, 2 GB of memory. It is currently running 10.6.8.

I searched the forums and online and see no reason why it won't even download the update... Any help would be appreciated!

This computer has a 32-bit EFI and cannot be updated past 10.7.5.

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