I have tried everything I can think of to rectify this failure, eg updated gzip, updated tar, updated gunzip, updated bunzip2. These utilities seem to be able to handle tgz files

Could someone help pls?

# ./perl harness 
/PATH/TO/DIRECTORY/cpan/Archive-Extract/t/01_Archive-Extract.t

/PATH/TO/DIRECTORY/cpan/Archive-Extract/t/01_Archive-Extract.t .. 1/? 
+Key 'archive' (01_Archive-Extract.t) is 
of invalid type for 'Archive::Extract::new' provided by ANON at 
/PATH/TO/DIRECTORY/cpan/Archive-Extract/t/01_Archive-Extract.t line 24
+1

#   Failed test '   Object created based on 'tgz''
#   at /PATH/TO/DIRECTORY/cpan/Archive-Extract/t/01_Archive-Extract.t 
+line 242.
Can't call method "error" on an undefined value at 

/PATH/TO/DIRECTORY/cpan/Archive-Extract/t/01_Archive-Extract.t line 24
+3.
# Looks like you failed 1 test of 4.
# Looks like your test exited with 2 just after 4.
/PATH/TO/DIRECTORY/cpan/Archive-Extract/t/01_Archive-Extract.t .. Dubi
+ous, test returned 2 (wstat 512, 0x200)
Failed 1/4 subtests

Test Summary Report
-------------------
/PATH/TO/DIRECTORY/cpan/Archive-Extract/t/01_Archive-Extract.t (Wstat:
+ 512 Tests: 4 Failed: 1)
  Failed test:  4
  Non-zero exit status: 2
Files=1, Tests=4,  2 wallclock secs ( 0.09 usr  0.01 sys +  1.56 cusr 
+ 0.06 csys =  1.72 CPU)
Result: FAIL

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