I need to install Archive::Zip on a Linux server to deal with a 50MB .zip archive one file at a time.

The current version of Archive::Zip on CPAN comes as a zip file. The CPAN module on my server and/or the version of gzip (v. 1.2.4; Aug 93) does not seem to be able to handle the installation. Transcript follows: 

cpan> install Archive::Zip
Running install for module Archive::Zip
Running make for N/NE/NEDKONZ/Archive-Zip-0.11.zip
Fetching with LWP:
  ftp://carroll.cac.psu.edu/pub/CPAN/authors/id/N/NE/NEDKONZ/Archive-Z
+ip-0.11.zip
Scanning cache /root/.cpan/build for sizes
Deleting from cache: /root/.cpan/build/Bundle-libnet-1.00 (10.1>10.0 M
+B)
Deleting from cache: /root/.cpan/build/XML-Parser-2.30 (10.1>10.0 MB)
CPAN: MD5 loaded ok
Fetching with LWP:
  ftp://carroll.cac.psu.edu/pub/CPAN/authors/id/N/NE/NEDKONZ/CHECKSUMS
Checksum for /root/.cpan/sources/authors/id/N/NE/NEDKONZ/Archive-Zip-0
+.11.zip ok
gzip: /root/.cpan/sources/authors/id/N/NE/NEDKONZ/Archive-Zip-0.11.zip
+ has more than one entry--rest ignored

Cannot unzip, no unzip program available
cpan>

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The copy of Archive-Zip-0.11.zip in /root/.cpan/etc/etc is still there. When I "gzip -l" it to check the contents, all it lists is the file itself. No list of internal files... which makes me less than confident about continuing by hand with gzip and that .zip file.

Because this is a zip file, I am concerned also that the contents may be Windows-specific. So I'd like to know more before proceeding with a manual install.

The previous version of Archive::Zip is available as a .tar.gz and dates from March 2000. I could grab that older version for a manual install. I seem to remember a way to use the CPAN module to install a local .tar.gz file but I can't make sense of what little I can find on this. So perhaps the full manual 'Make' routine would be best if I go that route. But is that older version likely to handle a file recently zipped on an up-to-date Linux server?

These system setup issues are not my strong suit, so this seems like a good point to pause and consult with you all. How would you recommend I proceed?

In reply to Problems installing Archive::Zip by dvergin

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