Is gzip broken on woody ?

[Jason Harris <jharris@esd.wa.gov>]

This is my first Woody install - please forgive me if I cannot see the 
obvious.  I can't seem to get a 2.4 kernel, 4.0 X or mozilla to work on 
my new woody install.  So, my plan was to start fixing/installing things 
by hand.   However, gzip and/or tar is not working either.    Is woody 
really that bad or has something gone terribly wrong somewhere ?  It is 
very strange since there is no corruption on the filesystems, apache 
works, networking/ssh works.  Help ?  

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joker@marla:~$ tar -xzvf
tar: option requires an argument -- f
Try `tar --help' for more information.
joker@marla:~$ tar -xzvf mozilla-i686-pc-linux-gnu-0.9.4-installer.tar.gz

gzip: stdin: not in gzip format
tar: Child returned status 1
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
joker@marla:~$ gunzip mozilla-i686-pc-linux-gnu-0.9.4-installer.tar.gz

gunzip: mozilla-i686-pc-linux-gnu-0.9.4-installer.tar.gz: not in gzip format
joker@marla:~$

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