I just ran apt-get upgrade on my debian 5 vps and I got this error:

tar: unrecognized option `--warning=no-timestamp'

Now when I try to install other packages e.g: imagemagick I get the same error:

li197-162:~# apt-get install imagemagick Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required: pkg-config comerr-dev libssh2-1-dev libpcre3-dev libdb4.6-dev libsqlite3-dev libmysqlclient15-dev libldap2-dev libpcrecpp0 libexpat1-dev libpq5 libidn11-dev Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them. The following extra packages will be installed: fontconfig-config imagemagick-common libfontconfig1 libfreetype6 libglib2.0-0 libice6 libjasper1 libjpeg8 liblcms1 liblqr-1-0 libltdl7 libmagickcore4 libmagickwand4 libpng12-0 libsm6 libtiff4 libx11-6 libx11-data libxau6 libxcb1 libxdmcp6 libxext6 libxml2 libxml2-dev libxt6 ttf-dejavu-core x11-common Suggested packages: imagemagick-doc autotrace cups-bsd lpr lprng enscript ffmpeg gimp gnuplot grads hp2xx html2ps libwmf-bin mplayer povray radiance sane-utils texlive-base-bin transfig xdg-utils libjasper-runtime liblcms-utils Recommended packages: libmagickcore4-extra ghostscript netpbm ufraw-batch libglib2.0-data shared-mime-info gsfonts xml-core The following NEW packages will be installed: fontconfig-config imagemagick imagemagick-common libfontconfig1 libfreetype6 libice6 libjasper1 libjpeg8 liblcms1 liblqr-1-0 libltdl7 libmagickcore4 libmagickwand4 libpng12-0 libsm6 libtiff4 libx11-6 libx11-data libxau6 libxcb1 libxdmcp6 libxext6 libxt6 ttf-dejavu-core x11-common The following packages will be upgraded: libglib2.0-0 libxml2 libxml2-dev 3 upgraded, 25 newly installed, 0 to remove and 190 not upgraded. Need to get 0B/11.2MB of archives. After this operation, 22.4MB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? Y Preconfiguring packages ... x11-common template parse error: Template parse error near `[email protected]: Samo glavni korisnik, Samo za korisnike konzole, Svako', in stanza #1 of /tmp/x11-common.template.65052 tar: unrecognized option `--warning=no-timestamp' Try `tar --help' or `tar --usage' for more information. dpkg-deb: error: subprocess tar returned error exit status 64 dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libfreetype6_2.4.6-2_i386.deb (--unpack): subprocess dpkg-deb --control returned error exit status 2 tar: unrecognized option `--warning=no-timestamp' Try `tar --help' or `tar --usage' for more information. dpkg-deb: error: subprocess tar returned error exit status 64 dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/ttf-dejavu-core_2.33-2_all.deb (--unpack): subprocess dpkg-deb --control returned error exit status 2 tar: unrecognized option `--warning=no-timestamp' Try `tar --help' or `tar --usage' for more information. dpkg-deb: error: subprocess tar returned error exit status 64 dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/fontconfig-config_2.8.0-3_all.deb (--unpack): subprocess dpkg-deb --control returned error exit status 2 tar: unrecognized option `--warning=no-timestamp' Try `tar --help' or `tar --usage' for more information. dpkg-deb: error: subprocess tar returned error exit status 64 dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libfontconfig1_2.8.0-3_i386.deb (--unpack): subprocess dpkg-deb --control returned error exit status 2 tar: unrecognized option `--warning=no-timestamp' Try `tar --help' or `tar --usage' for more information. dpkg-deb: error: subprocess tar returned error exit status 64 dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/x11-common_1%3a7.6+9_all.deb (--unpack): subprocess dpkg-deb --control returned error exit status 2 tar: unrecognized option `--warning=no-timestamp' Try `tar --help' or `tar --usage' for more information. dpkg-deb: error: subprocess tar returned error exit status 64 dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libice6_2%3a1.0.7-2_i386.deb (--unpack): subprocess dpkg-deb --control returned error exit status 2 tar: unrecognized option `--warning=no-timestamp' Try `tar --help' or `tar --usage' for more information. dpkg-deb: error: subprocess tar returned error exit status 64 dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libpng12-0_1.2.46-3_i386.deb (--unpack): subprocess dpkg-deb --control returned error exit status 2 tar: unrecognized option `--warning=no-timestamp' Try `tar --help' or `tar --usage' for more information. dpkg-deb: error: subprocess tar returned error exit status 64 dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libsm6_2%3a1.2.0-2_i386.deb (--unpack): subprocess dpkg-deb --control returned error exit status 2 tar: unrecognized option `--warning=no-timestamp' Try `tar --help' or `tar --usage' for more information. dpkg-deb: error: subprocess tar returned error exit status 64 dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libjpeg8_8c-2_i386.deb (--unpack): subprocess dpkg-deb --control returned error exit status 2 tar: unrecognized option `--warning=no-timestamp' Try `tar --help' or `tar --usage' for more information. dpkg-deb: error: subprocess tar returned error exit status 64 dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libtiff4_3.9.5-2_i386.deb (--unpack): subprocess dpkg-deb --control returned error exit status 2 tar: unrecognized option `--warning=no-timestamp' Try `tar --help' or `tar --usage' for more information. dpkg-deb: error: subprocess tar returned error exit status 64 dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libxau6_1%3a1.0.6-3_i386.deb (--unpack): subprocess dpkg-deb --control returned error exit status 2 tar: unrecognized option `--warning=no-timestamp' Try `tar --help' or `tar --usage' for more information. dpkg-deb: error: subprocess tar returned error exit status 64 dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libxdmcp6_1%3a1.1.0-3_i386.deb (--unpack): subprocess dpkg-deb --control returned error exit status 2 tar: unrecognized option `--warning=no-timestamp' Try `tar --help' or `tar --usage' for more information. dpkg-deb: error: subprocess tar returned error exit status 64 dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libxcb1_1.7-3_i386.deb (--unpack): subprocess dpkg-deb --control returned error exit status 2 tar: unrecognized option `--warning=no-timestamp' Try `tar --help' or `tar --usage' for more information. dpkg-deb: error: subprocess tar returned error exit status 64 dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libx11-data_2%3a1.4.4-2_all.deb (--unpack): subprocess dpkg-deb --control returned error exit status 2 tar: unrecognized option `--warning=no-timestamp' Try `tar --help' or `tar --usage' for more information. dpkg-deb: error: subprocess tar returned error exit status 64 dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libx11-6_2%3a1.4.4-2_i386.deb (--unpack): subprocess dpkg-deb --control returned error exit status 2 tar: unrecognized option `--warning=no-timestamp' Try `tar --help' or `tar --usage' for more information. dpkg-deb: error: subprocess tar returned error exit status 64 dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libxext6_2%3a1.3.0-3_i386.deb (--unpack): subprocess dpkg-deb --control returned error exit status 2 tar: unrecognized option `--warning=no-timestamp' Try `tar --help' or `tar --usage' for more information. dpkg-deb: error: subprocess tar returned error exit status 64 dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libxt6_1%3a1.1.1-2_i386.deb (--unpack): subprocess dpkg-deb --control returned error exit status 2 tar: unrecognized option `--warning=no-timestamp' Try `tar --help' or `tar --usage' for more information. dpkg-deb: error: subprocess tar returned error exit status 64 dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libxml2-dev_2.7.8.dfsg-4_i386.deb (--unpack): subprocess dpkg-deb --control returned error exit status 2 tar: unrecognized option `--warning=no-timestamp' Try `tar --help' or `tar --usage' for more information. dpkg-deb: error: subprocess tar returned error exit status 64 dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libxml2_2.7.8.dfsg-4_i386.deb (--unpack): subprocess dpkg-deb --control returned error exit status 2 tar: unrecognized option `--warning=no-timestamp' Try `tar --help' or `tar --usage' for more information. dpkg-deb: error: subprocess tar returned error exit status 64 dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libglib2.0-0_2.28.6-1_i386.deb (--unpack): subprocess dpkg-deb --control returned error exit status 2 tar: unrecognized option `--warning=no-timestamp' Try `tar --help' or `tar --usage' for more information. dpkg-deb: error: subprocess tar returned error exit status 64 dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/liblcms1_1.19.dfsg-1_i386.deb (--unpack): subprocess dpkg-deb --control returned error exit status 2 tar: unrecognized option `--warning=no-timestamp' Try `tar --help' or `tar --usage' for more information. dpkg-deb: error: subprocess tar returned error exit status 64 dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/liblqr-1-0_0.4.1-1.1_i386.deb (--unpack): subprocess dpkg-deb --control returned error exit status 2 tar: unrecognized option `--warning=no-timestamp' Try `tar --help' or `tar --usage' for more information. dpkg-deb: error: subprocess tar returned error exit status 64 dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libltdl7_2.4-4_i386.deb (--unpack): subprocess dpkg-deb --control returned error exit status 2 tar: unrecognized option `--warning=no-timestamp' Try `tar --help' or `tar --usage' for more information. dpkg-deb: error: subprocess tar returned error exit status 64 dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libjasper1_1.900.1-10_i386.deb (--unpack): subprocess dpkg-deb --control returned error exit status 2 tar: unrecognized option `--warning=no-timestamp' Try `tar --help' or `tar --usage' for more information. dpkg-deb: error: subprocess tar returned error exit status 64 dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/imagemagick-common_8%3a6.6.9.7-5_all.deb (--unpack): subprocess dpkg-deb --control returned error exit status 2 tar: unrecognized option `--warning=no-timestamp' Try `tar --help' or `tar --usage' for more information. dpkg-deb: error: subprocess tar returned error exit status 64 dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libmagickcore4_8%3a6.6.9.7-5+b1_i386.deb (--unpack): subprocess dpkg-deb --control returned error exit status 2 tar: unrecognized option `--warning=no-timestamp' Try `tar --help' or `tar --usage' for more information. dpkg-deb: error: subprocess tar returned error exit status 64 dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libmagickwand4_8%3a6.6.9.7-5+b1_i386.deb (--unpack): subprocess dpkg-deb --control returned error exit status 2 tar: unrecognized option `--warning=no-timestamp' Try `tar --help' or `tar --usage' for more information. dpkg-deb: error: subprocess tar returned error exit status 64 dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/imagemagick_8%3a6.6.9.7-5+b1_i386.deb (--unpack): subprocess dpkg-deb --control returned error exit status 2 Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/libfreetype6_2.4.6-2_i386.deb /var/cache/apt/archives/ttf-dejavu-core_2.33-2_all.deb /var/cache/apt/archives/fontconfig-config_2.8.0-3_all.deb /var/cache/apt/archives/libfontconfig1_2.8.0-3_i386.deb /var/cache/apt/archives/x11-common_1%3a7.6+9_all.deb /var/cache/apt/archives/libice6_2%3a1.0.7-2_i386.deb /var/cache/apt/archives/libpng12-0_1.2.46-3_i386.deb /var/cache/apt/archives/libsm6_2%3a1.2.0-2_i386.deb /var/cache/apt/archives/libjpeg8_8c-2_i386.deb /var/cache/apt/archives/libtiff4_3.9.5-2_i386.deb /var/cache/apt/archives/libxau6_1%3a1.0.6-3_i386.deb /var/cache/apt/archives/libxdmcp6_1%3a1.1.0-3_i386.deb /var/cache/apt/archives/libxcb1_1.7-3_i386.deb /var/cache/apt/archives/libx11-data_2%3a1.4.4-2_all.deb /var/cache/apt/archives/libx11-6_2%3a1.4.4-2_i386.deb /var/cache/apt/archives/libxext6_2%3a1.3.0-3_i386.deb /var/cache/apt/archives/libxt6_1%3a1.1.1-2_i386.deb /var/cache/apt/archives/libxml2-dev_2.7.8.dfsg-4_i386.deb /var/cache/apt/archives/libxml2_2.7.8.dfsg-4_i386.deb /var/cache/apt/archives/libglib2.0-0_2.28.6-1_i386.deb /var/cache/apt/archives/liblcms1_1.19.dfsg-1_i386.deb /var/cache/apt/archives/liblqr-1-0_0.4.1-1.1_i386.deb /var/cache/apt/archives/libltdl7_2.4-4_i386.deb /var/cache/apt/archives/libjasper1_1.900.1-10_i386.deb /var/cache/apt/archives/imagemagick-common_8%3a6.6.9.7-5_all.deb /var/cache/apt/archives/libmagickcore4_8%3a6.6.9.7-5+b1_i386.deb /var/cache/apt/archives/libmagickwand4_8%3a6.6.9.7-5+b1_i386.deb /var/cache/apt/archives/imagemagick_8%3a6.6.9.7-5+b1_i386.deb E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) li197-162:~# 

I really have no idea what is wrong and how to fix this. Is it possible to undo an apt-get upgrade?