Broken cpan?

["Robert L. Harris" <nomad@rnd-consulting.com>]

I'm getting this now since I'm running debian.  Anyone know how to 
fix it without re-compiling perl?

cpan> install Date::Calc
CPAN: LWP::UserAgent loaded ok
Fetching with LWP:
  ftp://mirror.xmission.com/CPAN/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz
Going to read /root/.cpan/sources/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz
perl: error in loading shared libraries
/usr/lib/perl5/i386-linux/5.004/auto/Compress/Zlib/Zlib.so: undefined symbol: zlibVersion


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Robert L. Harris                |  Low quality in a product happens.
Senior System Engineer          |    That doesn't mean it's right and
  at Global Commerce Systems.   |      and defintely doesn't mean it should
                                 \_      be accepted.  Require quality.

http://www.rnd-consulting.com/~nomad

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FYI:
 perl -e 'print $i=pack(c5,(41*2),sqrt(7056),(unpack(c,H)-2),oct(115),10);'