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corelist shows that ExtUtils::Manifest should already be installed since it is a Core module: 
corelist ExtUtils::Manifest

ExtUtils::Manifest was first released with perl 5.001

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Compress::Raw::Zlib is also Core in recent Perl's: 

corelist Compress::Raw::Zlib

Compress::Raw::Zlib was first released with perl v5.9.4

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