Puppet Error: "Could not extract contents of module archive"

Issue

• The following error occurs when trying to install a puppet module and errors with the following message

# puppet apply /root/Module-Name/pkg/puppet-ModName-0.1.0
Error: Could not extract contents of module archive: Execution of 'gzip -dc /root/Module-Name/pkg/puppet-ModName-0.1.0 | tar xof - returned 2: gzip
tar: This does not look like a tar archive"