cpan errors with "Undefined subroutine &Compress::Zlib::gzopen"

[Yakov]

Whatever I try to install with cpan (for example install
Bundle::CPAN),
I get error:
......
CPAN: LWP::UserAgent loaded ok
Fetching with LWP:
http://mirror.mirimar.net/cpan/modules/03modlist.data.gz
Going to read /home/lerner/.cpan/sources/modules/03modlist.data.gz
Undefined subroutine &Compress::Zlib::gzopen called at /usr/share/perl/
5.8/CPAN.pm line 5722.

This is perl 5.8.8 on freshly installed debian 4. How do I fix this?

Thanks
Yakov

 

[brian d foy]

CPAN: LWP::UserAgent loaded ok
Fetching with LWP:
http://mirror.mirimar.net/cpan/modules/03modlist.data.gz
Going to read /home/lerner/.cpan/sources/modules/03modlist.data.gz
Undefined subroutine &Compress::Zlib::gzopen called at /usr/share/perl/
5.8/CPAN.pm line 5722.

This is perl 5.8.8 on freshly installed debian 4. How do I fix this?

Is Compress::Zlib installed? If so, which version is it?