I'd recommend updating your ports tree -- port -d selfupdate; the tree
does change constantly, and it's possible that you caught it at a time
when that package was unavailable, or removed from the tree for some
reason.  (It appears to be there *now*, so I'm not sure what's going on.)

> thanks for the reply, its just weird it worked for you and when i try
> to install the dep by itself i get:
>
> bash-3.2# port install p5-compress-zlib
> Error: Port p5-compress-zlib not found


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