[Fink-users] 'gzip is not the right format' error

[piet dierickx]

Title: 'gzip is not the right format' error

When I run ‘fink selfupdate’ ,
Fink connects to fink.sourceforge.net and displays the following error:
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A new Fink distribution release is available. I will now download the package
descriptions for Fink 0.4.0 and update the core packages. After that, you
should update the other packages using commands like 'fink update-all'.

gzip -dc packages-0.4.0.tar.gz | tar -xvf -

gzip: packages-0.4.0.tar.gz: not in gzip format
./inject.pl /sw
Can't exec "./inject.pl": No such file or directory at /sw/lib/perl5/Fink/Services.pm line 180.
### ./inject.pl failed, exit code -1
Failed: injecting the new package definitions from packages-0.4.0.tar.gz failed

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I get the same error when I try to install other packages also.
What could be wrong? I am relatively new to Unix ands it’s command line.
Are there any options somewhere I didn’t set with regard to the gzip command?

Thanx,
Piet