FWIW — just in case someone digs this up later and wonders what the issue had been — the OP had mentioned in the chatterbox yesterday that it was an old version of Compress::Zlib someone else had installed that made "use Archive::Zip;" fail.

Unfortunately, s/he did not consider it necessary (so far) to 'close' the thread properly by posting a quick update stating that the problem was solved by getting rid of that old Compress::Zlib version...