Cant locate object method 'new' via package "IO::Zlib"

[Dennis Clark]

I keep getting this error - Cant locate object method 'new' via package 
"IO::Zlib" at /usr/bin/sa-update line 671 - when attempting to run sa-update.  
It worked fine when I ran it about 10 months ago (im way behind).
 
Using SA version 3.1.3 on Fedora.