diff -Naur mage-0.4.20/usr/lib/mage/mage4.functions.sh mage-0.4.20-mcore/usr/lib/mage/mage4.functions.sh
--- mage-0.4.20/usr/lib/mage/mage4.functions.sh	2010-04-28 16:01:17.000000000 +0200
+++ mage-0.4.20-mcore/usr/lib/mage/mage4.functions.sh	2010-04-28 16:07:05.000000000 +0200
@@ -1246,9 +1246,7 @@
 
 		wget \
 			--passive-ftp \
-			--tries 3 \
 			--continue \
-			--progress bar \
 			--directory-prefix=${temp} \
 			${mymirr}/rsync/tarballs/${latest_tarball}
 		if [[ $? = 0 ]]
@@ -1271,7 +1269,7 @@
 		echo -ne "${COLBLUE} --- ${COLDEFAULT}"
 		echo "updating mage-tree from tarball ..."
 		# unpack in dirname of MAGEDIR, as the tarball has already the mage
-		tar xjmf ${temp}/${latest_tarball} -C ${MAGEDIR%/*} || die "Unpacking tarball"
+		tar xjf ${temp}/${latest_tarball} -C ${MAGEDIR%/*} || die "Unpacking tarball"
 
 		if [[ -d ${temp} ]]
 		then